A nationwide scarcity of late-night transit options is taking a toll on workers and businesses that operate outside of the traditional 9-to-5 schedule. Insufficient public transportation options forces employees to rely on more expensive means to get to and from work. Instead of paying only 3% of their income, a security guard making roughly $14 an hour may have to pay close to half of their income leasing a car and 31% of that income to afford gas.
Statement: Ride-sharing won’t fix Metro’s problems with District workers
Washington Post: Metro to subsidize Uber & Lyft fares to fill late-night service gap
UNITE HERE Local 25, a hospitality union representing about 7,500 workers in the D.C. region, seized on the Metro plan as a “PR stunt.”
“Local 25 is deeply skeptical of [Metro’s] reported plan to subsidize ride-sharing instead of reinstating extended service hours,” the union said in a statement. “That [Metro’s] plan essentially proposes to privatize a part of our public transportation infrastructure in the process only adds insult to injury.”