The Silver Line isn't even completed through Reston and commuters are dropping Metro. Martin Di Caro, WAMU, October 2, 2015

Why D.C.-Area Commuters Say They Are Dropping Metro

By: Martin Di Caro
October 2, 2015 

Some Orange Line riders have decided to avoid the crush — permanently. 

Call them the Metro quitters.

After months of consistently unreliable rush hour service emblematic of this rough year for the D.C. region’s transit system, an unknown but seemingly growing number of commuters are dumping Metro, giving up their seats — if seats are even available aboard packed railcars — for cars, bikes or walking.

WAMU 88.5 has received scores of emails and tweets from Metrorail riders who are quitting the system after the lousy summer that ended on a regrettably fitting note: on Sept. 21 a transformer fire at Metro’s power substation near Stadium-Armory will cause service disruptions for at least six months on the Blue, Orange, and Silver Lines. . . .

Click here for the rest of this extensive article, including a number of comments from former Metro riders.