What would it ACTUALLY take for you to consider biking or taking the bus, in lieu of motoring?

[Anonymous]

it takes me 12 minutes to drive to work and at least 45 to metro. Sorry but i'm not giving up that extra hour with my kids.

[Anonymous]

The only thing good metro has going for it is that it’s now payment optional. If gas goes above $4 again I may go back to the free option.

[Anonymous]

I live a 15 minute bike ride from work on a dedicated bike path along a creek. No interaction with cars, tunnels under major roads. Riding to and from work is glorious. I would not do it if I had to be on a bike lane on a road for more than a few minutes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd take the bus/metro if they removed all other residents from it and I was the only one on it. No desire to be near other people

+1, specifically related to the bus.

[Anonymous]

Hell freezing over? Pigs flying? In other words, this mid-50s lady isn't ever getting on a bike again, ever

[Anonymous]

I already bike, and love it. Most of my bike route is on crescent trail and then a separated bike lane. What would it take? Here is what it took the Dutch:
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23587916.amp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live a 15 minute bike ride from work on a dedicated bike path along a creek. No interaction with cars, tunnels under major roads. Riding to and from work is glorious. I would not do it if I had to be on a bike lane on a road for more than a few minutes.

This sounds wonderful and if that were my commute I would bike.

I’m not biking down Georgia Ave, 14th St, etc. with drivers blowing through red lights.

I’m not doubling my commute by taking the metro. Or on a day like today when the red line trains say for 20 minutes at Union Ststion this morning, tripling my commute.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd be more willing to take the bus and/or metro if there was actually some sort of police presence. Right now, it's like the Wild West on public transportation. Large groups of teens wearing ski masks are free to terrorize everyone else and suffer no consequences. Until it's safe and you actually have police enforcing the law, you won't have a majority of people willing to ride.

+1 Plus getting mugged in the middle of the afternoon on the walk home from the metro.