Metro Spending Often Veers From Core Transit Mission: "Even as Metro officials complain that tight finances are crippling their ability to run the Washington area's subways and buses, they continue to pour millions into programs that have little to do with transporting passengers."

Listed in the article are various charges for things that look like massive wastes of money. For the most part they are; but that isn't the problem. Metro doesn't have enough good management to keep itself operational, and is hemorrhaging money to compensate.

(Via Washington Post.)