June 27, 2010

It is an anniversary one does not celebrate, but mourn. The pain is still fresh — piercing and overwhelming for the loved ones of the nine Washington, D.C.-area residents killed in the crash of two red-line Metro trains near the border of D.C. and Maryland on June 22, 2009.

In our grief, we realize that accidents do happen, that even terrible mishaps, which snatch away lives and devastate those of us left behind, cannot always be prevented.

But out of love of life — for both those departed and those remaining, including the 70 who were injured — we ought to seek a transit system, an economic system and a political order that will render such tragedies as unlikely as possible.

Yet, on the one-year anniversary of the worst train accident in the Washington-area Metro transit system’s 34-year history, the Washington Post headline reads: “Few gains in safety since Metro crash.” In fact, the headline is only too optimistic…

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