I ran the numbers on this a while ago, and Metro averages about one fatality per year (looking at the last ten years, but they&#x27;re clumped, so this is not necessarily accurate) and that makes them about 10x safer than cars for the equivalent number of passenger-miles. So yes, they&#x27;re safer, but they wouldn&#x27;t need to be killing people every day to approach the level of cars, once a month would do it.<p>What&#x27;s worrying is that there are a lot of non-fatal incidents (fires and such) which avoid killing people purely by luck. If they don&#x27;t take action, those are going to start killing people more frequently.<p>Thankfully they are taking action, finally. Unfortunately that action is going to involve some pretty major shutdowns over the next year.