April 2, 2010
Dear Mayor Fenty, Governor O’Malley, Governor McDonnell, WMATA Board Members, and leaders of Northern Virginia jurisdictions:
The Coalition for Smarter Growth joins many others in the region in our grave concern over the dire funding problems facing the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA, “Metro”). We are transmitting to you the 2,030 petition signatures that we gathered since late fall of 2009, demonstrating strong support both for more capital funding and additional operating funding for Metro.