Fellow EphBlogger Mike Needham ‘04 has a funny letter in today’s Washington Post.

It is altogether unsurprising that none of the 12 members of the board of directors of Metro is a regular rider of the system the board oversees ["Metro's Board Rarely on Board," front page, Dec. 2]. Nonetheless, it is a particular slap in the face to Metro customers that board member Gladys Mack justified not using the system by saying that her schedule is too busy for her to rely on public transportation — as if the rest of us have nothing better to do than sit in a dark tunnel all morning waiting for the latest Red Line glitch to work itself out.

Ms. Mack might be interested to know that New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has kept his campaign pledge to regularly ride his city’s fantastically reliable subway to work.

Like Ms. Mack I have a busy schedule; unlike Mr. Bloomberg I do not have a reliable rail system available to transport me to work. As such I will abandon Metro in favor of biking to work.

Despite my frustrations with Metro, I’d be happy to volunteer to fill the next vacancy on the board. Now that I am no longer riding Metro to work, I would fit right in with the rest of this group.

Although it must be said that “fantastically reliable” are not the first words out of my Mom’s mouth when she describes the NYC subway . . .

By the way, having Metro Board members who don’t ride the subway is sort of like having Commencement speakers that don’t really care about Williams, don’t you think?