RTO:Traffic is atrocious

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s noticeable watching the neighbors all get in their cars and drive away at 7:30am. The neighborhood finally has less dog walkers all day long. There are some benefits.

Love all these people who are home all day looking at their windows and seething over... what exactly? Walking their dogs while on a conference call?

[Anonymous]

The 9th St tunnel is the worst in the evenings. Most days, I sit in the tunnel for an hour; it's the worst leg of my commute. I really wish the city would install cones for the right lane ramp to prevent cars from going around and jumping to the front of the lane/line. I refuse to let anyone over these days.

[Anonymous]

People are still walking dogs in my neighborhood. I think they are retired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s noticeable watching the neighbors all get in their cars and drive away at 7:30am. The neighborhood finally has less dog walkers all day long. There are some benefits.

Love all these people who are home all day looking at their windows and seething over... what exactly? Walking their dogs while on a conference call?

+1 can you imagine being that miserable?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The 9th St tunnel is the worst in the evenings. Most days, I sit in the tunnel for an hour; it's the worst leg of my commute. I really wish the city would install cones for the right lane ramp to prevent cars from going around and jumping to the front of the lane/line. I refuse to let anyone over these days.

Yeah I was stuck there for almost an hour not moving until i realized we were constantly being cutoff by traffic that was going in the northbound lane and cutting over to southbound at the last minute. I ended up just going northbound and turning around in like 5 minutes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People are still walking dogs in my neighborhood. I think they are retired.

I love seeing dog walkers in my neighborhood, and they all scoop so what do i have to complain?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1000. Take metro if you don’t like the traffic.

Don’t make people RTO for no reason

The reason is to make people quit

And that’s a bad reason

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1000. Take metro if you don’t like the traffic.

Crime has been terrible on metro and they are only now taking steps to curb it.

https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/03/28/metro-ban-sex-crimes-assault-repeat-offenders

On top of the fact that metros and stations stink of weed all the time now.

Literally daily I see people, mostly teens, jump the gates. Why isn’t this being enforced? It just makes the environment seems like chaos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are still walking dogs in my neighborhood. I think they are retired.

I love seeing dog walkers in my neighborhood, and they all scoop so what do i have to complain?

It makes your neighborhood safer to have people out and about all day.

[Anonymous]

I was never anti-RTO when it was hybrid and essentially returned us to what we were doing 20+ years ago. It was a good blend and traffic was spread out. I also have a very short commute (if driving), very long if I were to take the metro (which I don’t). I’m also going to take VERA so not going to be affected much longer. That being said, traffic is absolutely bonkers out there, even at 6:00am in the morning on the outer loop, at least. It is terrible for the environment and terrible for the road conditions. The stress level must be tremendous for people facing this five days a week. What this means for all of you who are so happy about this is worst traffic, poorer road conditions, less people volunteering in the schools and communities, etc., etc. And, for government at least, less timely services, more inefficiency, more agency budgets going to building services. Everyone is paying a price for this nonsense one way or another.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1000. Take metro if you don’t like the traffic.

Crime has been terrible on metro and they are only now taking steps to curb it.

https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/03/28/metro-ban-sex-crimes-assault-repeat-offenders

On top of the fact that metros and stations stink of weed all the time now.

Literally daily I see people, mostly teens, jump the gates. Why isn’t this being enforced? It just makes the environment seems like chaos.

I have only seen 1 person jump the new gates since I have been back (3 weeks)
Used to be almost constant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1000. Take metro if you don’t like the traffic.

Don’t make people RTO for no reason

The reason is to make people quit

And that’s a bad reason

It is indeed - but we're in an unprecedented situation where the head of the government hates its workforce. And Trump hates us too.

Before the pandemic I was teleworking 2 days a week. When we went 100% telework our productivity increased (you might even say we became more efficient). Those same metrics say our productivity is way down this year. That's due to several policy changes made for bad reasons, of which RTO is only one. I'd quit if I could find something else but it's not easy when I'm competing with all the feds who have already been fired. If the kids were younger I'd stay home - but they're teenagers now. So...sitting it traffic it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1000. Take metro if you don’t like the traffic.

Crime has been terrible on metro and they are only now taking steps to curb it.

https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/03/28/metro-ban-sex-crimes-assault-repeat-offenders

On top of the fact that metros and stations stink of weed all the time now.

Damn those white kids!

Literally daily I see people, mostly teens, jump the gates. Why isn’t this being enforced? It just makes the environment seems like chaos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was never anti-RTO when it was hybrid and essentially returned us to what we were doing 20+ years ago. It was a good blend and traffic was spread out. I also have a very short commute (if driving), very long if I were to take the metro (which I don’t). I’m also going to take VERA so not going to be affected much longer. That being said, traffic is absolutely bonkers out there, even at 6:00am in the morning on the outer loop, at least. It is terrible for the environment and terrible for the road conditions. The stress level must be tremendous for people facing this five days a week. What this means for all of you who are so happy about this is worst traffic, poorer road conditions, less people volunteering in the schools and communities, etc., etc. And, for government at least, less timely services, more inefficiency, more agency budgets going to building services. Everyone is paying a price for this nonsense one way or another.

Who is happy about this? I’m certainly not. But I’ve been commuting five days a week for years. That being said, people complaining about two hour commutes to Rockville or sitting for 1 hour in a DC tunnel should take the metro. It’s hard for me to imagine the metro really adds much time to such a long commute.

[Anonymous]

The restaurants, coffee shops, and flower vendors are starting to flourish again. There are some great things happening, too. I guess you have to take the good with the bad.