Further reading on the Metro, courtesy of the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/metro-sank-into-crisis-despite-decades-of-warnings/2016/04/24/1c4db91c-0736-11e6-a12f-ea5aed7958dc_story.html  I think there are clear parallel's between what caused the Metro's decline and what we've seen so far from HART and our local government.