WMATA proposes selling station naming rights, cutting preventative maintenance (again)

Published January 15, 2011 5:00am ET



In the latest front in the unions-against-taxpayers brawl, Washington’s Metro is debating selling naming rights to its stations to slow its budget crisis. This measure is one of a list of options WMATA is considering, but it’s definitely the most wacky.

Just consider this the latest, greatest example of flawed groupthink decision making.

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