“I would hope that the [area governments] would be acting as quickly as possible on putting together a Metro reform board,” said Jim Dyke, a former Metro board member who now works on the Metro task force of the Greater Washington Board of Trade. [LaHood report on Metro urges dedicated funding, bus fare hike, trim in pension costs.] “From a Maryland and Virginia point of view, there are definitely problems with trying to create that kind of smaller board,” said Metro board member Michael Goldman, who represents Maryland. “He had a golden opportunity to really make a statement on dedicated funding, and he ducked,” Metro Board Chairman Jack Evans said. “I talked to everybody, and the bottom line is there’s no consensus, there’s no agreement for a regional sales tax,” LaHood said.

Source: Washington Post November 15, 2017 00:45 UTC