Editing Washington Metro (section)

=== Financing ===
Metro relies extensively on passenger fares and appropriated financing from the [[Government of Maryland|Maryland]], [[Government of Virginia|Virginia]], and [[Government of the District of Columbia|Washington D.C., governments]], which are represented on Metro's board of directors. In 2018, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., agreed to contribute $500&nbsp;million annually to Metro's capital budget.<ref name="dedicated funding" /> Until then, the system did not have a dedicated revenue stream as other cities' mass transit systems do. Critics allege that this has contributed to Metro's recent history of maintenance and safety problems.<ref>{{cite news|last=Mullins|first=Luke|url=http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/transportation/why-does-metro-suck-dangerous-accidents-escalator-outages.php|title=The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105111048/http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/transportation/why-does-metro-suck-dangerous-accidents-escalator-outages.php |archive-date=January 5, 2016|newspaper=[[Washingtonian (magazine)|Washingtonian]]|date=December 9, 2015}}</ref><ref name="crisis despite warnings" />

For Fiscal Year 2019, the estimated [[farebox recovery ratio]] (fare revenue divided by operating expenses) was 62 percent, based on the WMATA-approved budget.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wmata.com/about/records/public_docs/upload/FY2019-Approved-BudgetFinal.pdf |title=FY2019 Approved Budget Effective July 1, 2018 |quote=Percentage calculated from figures in pages 12 and 41 . $635.4 mil./$1022.9 mil = 62%. |access-date=August 27, 2018 |archive-date=August 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180828035833/https://www.wmata.com/about/records/public_docs/upload/FY2019-Approved-BudgetFinal.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>