If you rely on public transit to get to work and your route is affected by Metro's closure

[Anonymous]

What are you going to do? Both my bus route and the only Metro station close to me will be closed/eliminated (well, my bus route has been gone since the spring) when the new budget that was recently approved go into effect. There are, of course, other ways to get to work, but they would take 90 minutes each way which is completely unsustainable. I'm hoping my employer will be understanding and considering that I've teleworked successfully the whole pandemic will allow me to continue remotely, but not too confident.

I could buy a car as well but that would a) require buying a car and b) result in a horrible hour+ long drive (especially considering how many more people will be on the road).

[Anonymous]

Bike + metro? That gives a fair amount of flexibility. Where is your commute?

[Anonymous]

I bought a used Toyota. For now, traffic is not nearly as bad as it was pre-pandemic.

[Anonymous]

asked for and was granted three telework days a week, plan on driving the other two once things open again

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bought a used Toyota. For now, traffic is not nearly as bad as it was pre-pandemic.

Traffic will be a nightmare when everyone is back at work and a quarter of metro stations are closed. Oh, and parking near my office is prohibitively expensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bike + metro? That gives a fair amount of flexibility. Where is your commute?

Would have to bike on extremely busy 6 way-roads, so that won’t work for me. The closest metro station to me is now a 30-minute bus ride.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bike + metro? That gives a fair amount of flexibility. Where is your commute?

Would have to bike on extremely busy 6 way-roads, so that won’t work for me. The closest metro station to me is now a 30-minute bus ride.

Sorry, 6-lane roads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bike + metro? That gives a fair amount of flexibility. Where is your commute?

Would have to bike on extremely busy 6 way-roads, so that won’t work for me. The closest metro station to me is now a 30-minute bus ride.

PP, have you looked at the Google Maps bike route and/or talked to people who bike in the area? The routes I take for biking from Point A to Point B are rarely the same as the ones I take for driving - because I don't want to bike on extremely busy 6-lane roads. Frequently there are routes you can take that are longer but safer for biking. Not always, though, so sometimes I end up biking on the sidewalk, and some places I just can't get to by bike at all.

Meanwhile, you should lobby everyone you know who doesn't live in this area, to please ask their elected representatives to pass a covid-funding bill for public transit systems in the US. If we can bail out the airlines during covid, we can fund public transit during covid.

[Anonymous]

Buy a used beater like a 2002 Ford.

[Anonymous]

I used Uber rideshare a lot when I lived in Boston, but that was pre-pandemic.

[Anonymous]

I thought the spending bill Trump just signed included enough money to prevent the station cuts that were proposed.