Metro gets $34M for new rail cars, infrastructure

The allocation is not enough to address Metro’s needs, Cardin said. He, along with U.S. Rep. Christopher Van Hollen (D-Dist. 8) of Kensington and Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D) of Baltimore, are sponsoring a bill to get a stable funding source for Metro.

A 2005 report by the Metropolitan Council of Governments, the Greater Washington Board of Trade and the Federal City Council found that WMATA faces an average annual operating and capital shortfall of roughly $300 million between fiscal 2006 and fiscal 2015, Cardin’s office said.