Does it make sense for the Federal Transit Administration to force the District to operate a redundant bus network on top of WMATA specifically to ferry one segregated group of bus riders to and from destinations already served by MetroBus?

Does it make sense for the FTA to write regulations for the specific purpose of hurting government transit investments and subsidizing private ones?

Does it make sense for the FTA to outlaw a practice that costs the District $5 million a year, forcing the city to accomplish the same exact objective for $20-25 million per year?

Common sense says no, it does not make sense to do those things. Yet that’s exactly what the FTA is doing.

This from the agency that’s supposed to be helping transit.