Metro warns of huge budget deficits and a death spiral

[Anonymous]

The problem with public transit is the public.

The smell. The crime. The crazies. Ugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people complaining about metro are living in an alternate reality. I have taken metro almost daily for 20 years. I’ve never seen a real crime. Never seen anyone masturbating. Stinkiness is rare (more common in the summer afternoon/evening—I do wish male workers would wear more reasonable clothes for DC summers). Loud music only once or twice in twenty minutes years. Have seen mentally ill people doing something troublesome a few times in twenty years.
I don’t know what Mad Max scenario these metro critics are envisioning but it does not match my experience. And it is still cheaper than downtown parking.
Fwiw, I’m a middle aged white lady from the suburbs and probably more crime averse than average. I wouldn’t ride around the city by msyself at midnight but commuting is totally fine.

Yeah, ok:

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/video-man-pushed-onto-metro-tracks-in-violent-attack
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/washington-dc-shooting-metro-employee-killed-subway-heroic-bystanders/
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/feared-for-our-lives-women-describe-anti-asian-threats-on-dc-metro-train/3319742/


https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/2019/07/29/metro-police-inform-another-woman-that-men-masturbating-metro-is-legal/ (Twilight zone reality we no live in because of equity)

https://wjla.com/news/local/police-arrest-man-twice-in-two-days-for-masturbating-on-metro-train-and-bus


Read personal horror stories here of women in the area trapped by men sitting next to them and jerking off:

https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/13ynwn8/has_anyone_ever_encountered_men_masterbating_on/


Exactly why driving is so much better. Don’t have to deal with cretins the city and metro police do nothing about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem with public transit is the public.

The smell. The crime. The crazies. Ugh.

Don't like public transit? Don't take it. Nobody is forcing you to take it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem with public transit is the public.

The smell. The crime. The crazies. Ugh.

Don't like public transit? Don't take it. Nobody is forcing you to take it.

I don't. And given Metro's issues many others don't either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people complaining about metro are living in an alternate reality. I have taken metro almost daily for 20 years. I’ve never seen a real crime. Never seen anyone masturbating. Stinkiness is rare (more common in the summer afternoon/evening—I do wish male workers would wear more reasonable clothes for DC summers). Loud music only once or twice in twenty minutes years. Have seen mentally ill people doing something troublesome a few times in twenty years.
I don’t know what Mad Max scenario these metro critics are envisioning but it does not match my experience. And it is still cheaper than downtown parking.
Fwiw, I’m a middle aged white lady from the suburbs and probably more crime averse than average. I wouldn’t ride around the city by msyself at midnight but commuting is totally fine.

Just because you appear to always have your head in the sand while commuting doesn't mean these things don't happen daily.

There was a group of teens harassing two moms on Monday. One mom sat down in a seat that the teens had deemed was "their zone" even though no one in their group was using it.

"Is this bish really gona sit right here? On today? On the day of our freedom? I know you wildin!" "yo, it's Juneteenth, you can't be here - MOVE!" The woman stood up and moved with her stroller to the other end of the car along with the other woman. They both got off at the next stop.

I see mentally ill/homeless people causing trouble at least once a week. I see dudes jerking off at least once month. These things are not rare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people complaining about metro are living in an alternate reality. I have taken metro almost daily for 20 years. I’ve never seen a real crime. Never seen anyone masturbating. Stinkiness is rare(more common in the summer afternoon/evening—I do wish male workers would wear more reasonable clothes for DC summers). Loud music only once or twice in twenty minutes years. Have seen mentally ill people doing something troublesome a few times in twenty years.
I don’t know what Mad Max scenario these metro critics are envisioning but it does not match my experience. And it is still cheaper than downtown parking.
Fwiw, I’m a middle aged white lady from the suburbs and probably more crime averse than average. I wouldn’t ride around the city by msyself at midnight but commuting is totally fine.

Don't believe you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Automation can’t come fast enough for the Metro. They need to automate the control of the trains and all of the gates asap. Eliminate jobs that with massively bloated salaries killing the system. I mean are we paying someone 6 figures to sit in a booth where they do nothing 99% of the time? The 1% of the time they do something like open a gate for you because your card malfunctioned they give you a nasty ornery attitude. They also clearly do nothing for safety and don’t do anything bout fare evasions. So what are we paying them for? Eliminate those jobs with machines first.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem with public transit is the public.

The smell. The crime. The crazies. Ugh.

Don't like public transit? Don't take it. Nobody is forcing you to take it.

I don't. And given Metro's issues many others don't either.

Well, there you go. Everybody's happy. End of thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the reality of public transit:

https://www.wusa9.com/article/traffic/mission-metro/metro-warns-massive-service-cuts-death-spiral-transit-750-million-shortfall/65-9c0dc54f-8f65-46c4-8390-51e8108ac1a5


Where are the anti-car fascists now? Have fun going to work or doing things on the weekend. The anti-car crowd loves to give pie in the sky calculations that never account for human factors like crime, overrun costs, inefficiencies, and huge bloated salaries and benefits for the unionized workers bankrupting the system. So glad we are spending billions more on this black hole with the purple line. Watch, the only solution they’ll come up with is to increase taxes and to increase fares to outrageous prices. It has never dawned on them to start with common sense ideas like increasing safety and severely punishing fare evaders. Why should anyone pay of a huge portion of people ride for free already?

+1. This is like reason 100 why the Connecticut Ave bike lanes are a horrible idea. Let’s not spend money to incentivize another 3000 people a day to stop riding metro.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Read personal horror stories here of women in the area trapped by men sitting next to them and jerking off:

https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/13ynwn8/has_anyone_ever_encountered_men_masterbating_on/

Jesus Christ this discussion is insane. These are a few doozies from that chat women in the DMV seem to be encountering on a somewhat regular basis on the Metro:

Semi related, but one of my clients was straight up raped in broad daylight on a red line train that was sitting and waiting to leave the station and NOBODY—station manager, a handful of other people, NOBODY came to her aid when she was screaming and trying to fight him off. Wasn’t even that long ago

I deadass won’t take the window seat for this very reason. I sit with my bag on the second seat and if it gets crowded, I get up and give the other person the window seat. Cause f**k that shit. That happened to my old roommate and she came home crying with semen on her coat. People are f***ing trash.

This has happened to me tons of times.

Several years ago (pre-pandemic) I increased my WFH because I was encountering masturbation, flashing, or harassment more than once a week on the Metro. After a few months, I couldn’t take the constant trauma anymore & decreased my in-office time.

Then one day I confronted one & told him to put his d!ck away. He instantly crumbled. I felt like a superhero. I know it’s a coincidence/luck but I haven’t had an incident since.

I saw a man doing this once. It was a pretty impressive size, though.

I follow the metro Twitter account and related hashtags and it's eye-opening how much this kind of thing and other abhorrent behaviors are mentioned. One woman posted a video of a man sucking a woman's toes on the train a while back.

But but but I've never seen it happen! It must not be a problem then! And remember, those darn automobiles are a cancer! Ride the metro!

[Anonymous]

I am a teacher and this year one student witnessed a stabbing on the metro and another witnessed a shooting in the metro station. This was in the past few months. So yes there is crime on the metro.

[Anonymous]

Get rid of the buses, just uber

[Anonymous]

Metro is used to shuttle criminals for free to nova and Maryland

[Anonymous]

The problem with fare evaders isn't just the missing revenue -- it's that I'm guessing the crazies and criminals are among the fare evaders. Crack down aggressively on fare evasion, and lots of other problems probably disappear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The people complaining about metro are living in an alternate reality. I have taken metro almost daily for 20 years. I’ve never seen a real crime. Never seen anyone masturbating. Stinkiness is rare (more common in the summer afternoon/evening—I do wish male workers would wear more reasonable clothes for DC summers). Loud music only once or twice in twenty minutes years. Have seen mentally ill people doing something troublesome a few times in twenty years.
I don’t know what Mad Max scenario these metro critics are envisioning but it does not match my experience. And it is still cheaper than downtown parking.
Fwiw, I’m a middle aged white lady from the suburbs and probably more crime averse than average. I wouldn’t ride around the city by msyself at midnight but commuting is totally fine.

Just because you appear to always have your head in the sand while commuting doesn't mean these things don't happen daily.

There was a group of teens harassing two moms on Monday. One mom sat down in a seat that the teens had deemed was "their zone" even though no one in their group was using it.

"Is this bish really gona sit right here? On today? On the day of our freedom? I know you wildin!" "yo, it's Juneteenth, you can't be here - MOVE!" The woman stood up and moved with her stroller to the other end of the car along with the other woman. They both got off at the next stop.

I see mentally ill/homeless people causing trouble at least once a week. I see dudes jerking off at least once month. These things are not rare.

Avoid certain Metro lines that serve neighborhoods with trashy low-lifes and you’ll have a different experience. Problem is the local political leaders want trash everywhere now.