But she has campaigned as a union activist against any attempt to privatize the capital’s giant public transit system – even after she suffered a stroke last year. “We should be a city-owned company, we provide a city-owned service.”The fight over who owns and runs public transit in Washington DC has been a long struggle that has seen an ebb and flow of privatization efforts in the fourth largest public transit system in the United States. They can’t keep anybody,” said Kimberly Wilson Lynch, a MetroAccess Paratransit driver for six years. Photograph: The Guardian“The way they treat the drivers is unbelievable,” said Genoa Greene, a MetroAccess Paratransit driver for 12 years. In suburban Vienna, Virginia, a bus line was cut that served hundreds of low-incoming housing units.

Source: The Guardian December 15, 2018 11:00 UTC