does metro think of people as cars?

i seriously spent 4 hours on metro today. it was for a good cause - but none the less I read the entire express and two short stories in the book i am reading.

On the back of the express today they had this metro newsletter of sorts...in the bottom column entitled metro buzz - they had this to say: " with smarTrip only aisles, 32 customers can pass through a fare gate each minute, compared to 22 per minute currently. The SmarTrip express lanes are similar to E-ZPass lanes on toll roads." They are thinking of people as cars - right...that is really disturbing to me.