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[quote=Anonymous]I don't drive. You still can't get me on a bike and only very rarely on a city bus. I walk (85% of the time) or I take an uber or I take the metro.

How would that change?

Biking? Nothing. I am not a confident biker. I also cannot imagine riding a bike in 105 degree weather, pouring rain, the rare days it's freezing.

I would take the metro more often if they didn't have 10-20 minute intervals (cannot imagine doing that at rush hour) and went more places. Also, safety is definitely something the city should address. While it's not a deal breaker for me, people's concerns about safety are not overblown - a station manager at Potomac Metro was recently killed!

Bus? I used to ride the bus when I was broke and it was the only way to visit some relatives and it was full of acting out mentally ill people and had really inconvenient intervals (some buses have half an hour intervals) plus you are still stuck in traffic. It's been decades and I still don't want to ride the bus and do it at most a couple of times a year. Dedicated bus lane, reasonable intervals and ensuring safety could get me back on but I cannot see the city doing much about any of that.[/quote]

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