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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Everyone knows that driving is just a much better experience[/b], even if it costs more and takes longer. Fewer random delays, no smell of pot everywhere, no body odor smells, no people coughing and sneezing all over you, no people blasting their music. It would be nice if metro addressed issues relating to the pleasantness of the ride, but as is the case with things generally in DC, there seems to be a move toward focusing less on quality of life issues in the pursuit of some vague "equity" objective.[/quote]

I guess I’m not part of everyone?  I give metro a better experience — not having to deal with unexpected accidents/construction, no crazy people trying to kill me so they can get where they’re going five minutes faster, no parking, I can focus on work or a book while I ride rather than having to pay attention to the road, no wear and tear on my car, …

For people who have genuinely short car commutes or don’t have a convenient metro station I can understand why it’s preferable to just drive your car in but I’m surprised at least one person thinks suffering through the traffic in a car is pleasanter than an equivalent cost/time ride on a train.[/quote]

I’d rather be in traffic than dealing with very violent gangs of teenagers on the subway hurting and killing people, or being subjected to men on the subway masturbating out in public.  Yes, these happen on the metro. [/quote]

If you'd rather drive, then drive. Nobody is stopping you from driving.[/quote]

Just don’t expect taxpayers to keep funding your transit that is losing massive amounts of money.[/quote]

"My" transit? First of all, "your" roads are losing far more massive amounts of money, and second of all, you would not be happy on "your" roads if everyone who currently takes transit instead drove cars.

Everyone benefits when more people take transit. Nobody except the car industry benefits when more people drive.[/quote]

We already discussed this up thread. No, the metro loses far more money than roads.

Just keep on dumping money into the metro because don’t you know! It’s a public service!

Yeah who needs accountability for anything. Just keep on throwing dollars at a problem that gets more bloated every year.  Tell you what, I’ll agree to give the metro more money as soon as you demand they cut out ridiculous bloat, slash useless jobs, and reduce ridiculous union salaries and benefits.  They’re the ones really choking the metro to death, yet your solution is to throw more money at the problem.  Brilliant plan!

Or DC could, you know, collect the over $1B owed to it in tickets and use that to fund the metro if it cares about it so much:

https://jalopnik.com/drivers-owe-washington-dc-1-3-billion-traffic-tickets-1850404184

But let me guess, that wouldn’t be equitable, right? [/quote]

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