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

[Anonymous]

Trains on the red line are currently running on six minute increments. That's really great for non-rush hour. I might as well head somewhere interesting for lunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i dont ride the bus because it's too expensive. if it was free, id take it everywhere.

kidding!

i dont ride the bus because riding the bus is terrible.

The problem is that public transportation in D.C. sucks.

[Anonymous]

Can they even tell how many people are riding the metro? There are so so so many fare jumpers.

[Anonymous]

So metro has half the ridership and prices have gone up. This would appear to be counter to modern economic theory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So metro has half the ridership and prices have gone up. This would appear to be counter to modern economic theory.

Did prices really go up? They got rid of that awful peak and peak of the peak, so I think fares actually went down. I love the Metro trains (most times), it's a 12 min walk from my house, so super convenient. I use it everyday for work and most times for downtown DC events. I hate driving around looking for parking and paying for parking garages.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So metro has half the ridership and prices have gone up. This would appear to be counter to modern economic theory.

Did prices really go up? They got rid of that awful peak and peak of the peak, so I think fares actually went down. I love the Metro trains (most times), it's a 12 min walk from my house, so super convenient. I use it everyday for work and most times for downtown DC events. I hate driving around looking for parking and paying for parking garages.

+100. Parking in DC sucks ass. I don't remember how many times I've ended up circling block after block, with no street parking, garage full, garage for monthly parkers only, et cetera, then you finally find some sketchy garage and have to leave your keys with them because they pack the cars in like tetris blocks, get whacked for $24 because you left 5 minutes late et cetera. And then you still have to walk several blocks to where you were trying to get to. Much cheaper and easier to just take mass transit. Often faster, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i dont ride the bus because it's too expensive. if it was free, id take it everywhere.

kidding!

i dont ride the bus because riding the bus is terrible.

The problem is that public transportation in D.C. sucks.

Many US cities have none and most with public transportation have some crime so while D.C. must improve, it isn't doing so bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So metro has half the ridership and prices have gone up. This would appear to be counter to modern economic theory.

Did prices really go up? They got rid of that awful peak and peak of the peak, so I think fares actually went down. I love the Metro trains (most times), it's a 12 min walk from my house, so super convenient. I use it everyday for work and most times for downtown DC events. I hate driving around looking for parking and paying for parking garages.

+100. Parking in DC sucks ass. I don't remember how many times I've ended up circling block after block, with no street parking, garage full, garage for monthly parkers only, et cetera, then you finally find some sketchy garage and have to leave your keys with them because they pack the cars in like tetris blocks, get whacked for $24 because you left 5 minutes late et cetera. And then you still have to walk several blocks to where you were trying to get to. Much cheaper and easier to just take mass transit. Often faster, too.

Really depends on if you live and work accessible to a metro. Not all of DC is this way and it's even more complicated if you have kids you need to get to school and/or daycare before work.

Live in Carver/Langston, work near Catholic, kid in school on Capitol Hill. Drive everywhere. On occasion if going downtown for a long while, I might drive closer to a Capitol Hill metro stop to park, then take metro downtown.

[Anonymous]

DS takes Metro to and from school every day and it's great.

It's fast and easy, he gets there on time and isn't stuck in a car with his fuming parents. Metro's one of the reasons we moved here and it's totally paid off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We got out of the habit of using public transportation during the pandemic, and we're not going back. It's too slow and unreliable. Now we drive everywhere.

+1