Out of curiosity - per day or week: how many people ride the DC Metro, how many people die on the Metro, how many people drive, and how many people die driving? Metro services have the same issue as airlines in that a non-issue failure rate ends up reviled in the news because there&#x27;s the same name attached to every single incident and everybody is completely failing to group up the alternatives to examine them.<p>Bad service I can agree with - that&#x27;s something that needs to be fixed. More money, supportive legislation that makes it easier for them to acquire capability, etcetera. But unless the Metro is killing someone <i>literally every day</i> I doubt its fatality rate approaches cars.