WASHINGTON — It’s probably too easy to dump on Metro these days. The train is always besieged with delays, and the agency stays in the news for all the wrong reasons.
Maybe some divine intervention could help?
With Pope Francis coming to the D.C. area Tuesday afternoon, there’s a Change.org petition asking the Catholic leader to bless the local Metro system “so it actually works.”
“At this point I’m willing to try anything,” wrote Noah Rosenheck, who launched the document. “All of D.C. would be grateful if you could find the time to bless it during your upcoming stay. Maybe a papal blessing is just what it needs.”
In an interview Tuesday, Metro spokesman Dan Stessel told WTOP that the agency is open to the pope’s prayers.
“It can only help,” Stessel said with a laugh. “If the Holy Father is willing to send a blessing our way then we’re willing to accept it.”
Rosenheck is asking for 1,000 signatures on this petition. It had 523 when this article was published.
In comments, some of the petition’s supporters laid out their reasons in not-so-nice ways.
“We need to cleanse the Metro of its demons,” wrote one user.
“Let’s be honest,” wrote user SL Keys, “what we really need is an exorcism.”
Check out the petition here.
