Metro is finally catching a break, and it’s a plus for workers in the Maryland and Virginia suburbs poised to start heading back to the office once they’re vaccinated.
The $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package signed by President Biden last week ends—for now—the prospect that the bus and subway operator in the Washington, D.C., area would have to resort to deep service cuts to stay solvent.
Metro, hammered when commuters abandoned the system beginning a year ago to work from home, had proposed the shutdown of more than 20 of its train stations across the region’s far-flung system, ranging from College Park-University of Maryland to Smithsonian to Arlington Cemetery to Clarendon.
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