Steve Burns
WMAL.com
ARLINGTON – (WMAL) Few issues can get the attention of the D.C.-area electorate like Metro, and Democratic Virginia Congressman Don Beyer is hoping a promise to fix the system from Hillary Clinton will increase her support.
“Hillary has been very friendly to us in terms of understanding more than half of federal employees get to work on Metro,” Beyer tells WMAL. “This is America’s Metro system.”
Speaking outside the Court House Metro station in Arlington inside his own 8th district, Beyer says a Clinton presidency would mean historic levels of infrastructure funding.
“Hillary’s 100-day jobs plan would grow jobs by making the boldest investments in infrastructure since Eisenhower built the Interstate Highway system,” he says. “Imagine waking up every morning without a news alert that says there are delays (on Metro), or to wake up and not have to look on Google Maps and see that every path to work is sold red the entire way.”
Beyer also mentions the Memorial Bridge and Interstates 66 and 95 as infrastructure projects that could be positively impacted by a Clinton presidency.
His comments come as Metro deals with yet another scathing report from its safety overseers at the Federal Transit Administration, detailing several safety missteps leading up to a derailment outside East Falls Church two weeks ago. The seventh surge in the Safe Track program also starts up this morning, bringing single tracking to the Red Line between Shady Grove and Twinbrook.
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