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. Likewise businesses in the restaurant industry may experience higher rates of tardiness and absenteeism as well. The decision to scale back the transit hours was prompted by the need to upkeep the train lines and ensure their maintenance. Instead metro proposed a program to offer $3 subsidies for workers who use Lyft between the hours of midnight and 4 a.m. Even with this effort, the APTA report concluded that disregarding late-night workers by limiting transit options threatens the entire community. Benjy Cannon with Unite Here Local 25, says “The proposal is a PR stunt meant to distract from Metro’s long-standing indifference to the transit needs of working families in our region,” said Benjy Cannon, a spokesperson for hospitality workers union UNITE HERE Local 25, to WAMU in June. “The $3 per-ride subsidy would hardly make a dent in the cost of a rideshare from the center of town to the suburbs, where many of our members live.”