Food and Fitness on Metrorail

As a Metrorail commuter, I choked on the May 8 Metro article "Food Kiosks at Stations? Metro Just Might Bite." If Metro managers think riders won't eat and drink more in the system with food kiosks in stations, they've got it wrong. Stations and rail cars are already trashed daily. I often see mice on the tracks, and the other day I saw a rat at the Fort Totten Station.

Metro should ask its station custodians what they think of this idea. Those workers will be pulling lots of overtime to keep up with all the trash, defeating the purpose of generating extra revenue from the kiosks. Metro management had better go back to the drawing board.

BARBARA J. RUNION

Hyattsville

I thank Metrorail for encouraging its customers to get more exercise.

In the past few months, I've lost more than 50 pounds, and Metro has to get some of the credit. Two of the three very long escalators at the Wheaton Station have been out of commission, and often, one or both of the escalators at Metro Center's 12th Street exit have been out, forcing me to hoof it up or down.

Gradually, I've improved my conditioning so much that if the last escalator goes out at Wheaton, and I have to trudge up and down the steps, I might soon be ready to run a marathon.

BRUCE H. JAMES

Silver Spring