Congrats D.C. - we've hit 50% pre-pandemic ridership totals

[Anonymous]

We're not going to reach pre-pandemic ridership totals.

[Anonymous]

Does this count everyone who jumps the gates? See 25-30 people doing this every trip.

[Anonymous]

Back to goodish!

[Anonymous]

Traffic is coming back to prepandemic levels also. How's traffic gets thicker, metro will look more attractive.

[Anonymous]

Is metro crime back up too?

[Anonymous]

Cost of parking downtown is going to go up, too, as more people are in the city center. Not just workers but tourists. Cost of parking was a major reason people in my office used to commute via metro-- the company also reimbursed for metro but not parking. Each year the building garage rates would go up, and a few more people would switch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does this count everyone who jumps the gates? See 25-30 people doing this every trip.

Even with the new gates?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does this count everyone who jumps the gates? See 25-30 people doing this every trip.

Even with the new gates?

The gates make zero difference. There is a big difference on days when a cop is standing there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Traffic is coming back to prepandemic levels also. How's traffic gets thicker, metro will look more attractive.

LMAO!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a Metro defender, but a lot of this is probably two things at work:

1) people aren’t back in their offices full time, so they have no reason to ride metro

2) I think a lot of people moved to the suburbs or more residential parts of the city for more space during covid, metro is no longer a convenient commuting option

And among the people who are going in, and for whom metro is convenient, it’s not a great product. No one wants to arrive at work at 8:30 on a Wednesday reeking of weed because someone was smoking it on the train. Escalators and elevators are consistent out of service. Stations/sections of track are shut down for months at a time for maintenance that should have been done decades ago. Stations and trains are filthy, and half of them are unsafe.

Metro is really the commuting option of last resort.

Are people back to slugging?

Haha touché!

WTOP actually had an article discussing what slugging is. The Slug lots are empty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does this count everyone who jumps the gates? See 25-30 people doing this every trip.

Good point...prepandemic they would cite you for that. Now I see so many people jumping.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does this count everyone who jumps the gates? See 25-30 people doing this every trip.

Even with the new gates?

The gates make zero difference. There is a big difference on days when a cop is standing there.

You haven't been in the city recently, the gates are AWESOME. Check popville

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does this count everyone who jumps the gates? See 25-30 people doing this every trip.

Even with the new gates?

The gates make zero difference. There is a big difference on days when a cop is standing there.

Those are pretty big dips to call "no difference". I wonder how they track the jumpers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does this count everyone who jumps the gates? See 25-30 people doing this every trip.

Even with the new gates?

The gates make zero difference. There is a big difference on days when a cop is standing there.

You haven't been in the city recently, the gates are AWESOME. Check popville

I ride the metro every day. Popville lmao

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does this count everyone who jumps the gates? See 25-30 people doing this every trip.

Even with the new gates?

The gates make zero difference. There is a big difference on days when a cop is standing there.

You haven't been in the city recently, the gates are AWESOME. Check popville

I ride the metro every day. Popville lmao

This morning I stopped before going through so some a$$hole would run into me because he was trying to push though on my card