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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The people complaining about metro are living in an alternate reality.  I have taken metro almost daily for 20 years.  I’ve never seen a real crime.  Never seen anyone masturbating.  Stinkiness is rare (more common in the summer afternoon/evening—I do wish male workers would wear more reasonable clothes for DC summers).  Loud music only once or twice in twenty minutes years.  Have seen mentally ill people doing something troublesome a few times in twenty years.  
I don’t know what Mad Max scenario these metro critics are envisioning but it does not match my experience.  And it is still cheaper than downtown parking.  
Fwiw, I’m a middle aged white lady from the suburbs and probably more crime averse than average.  I wouldn’t ride around the city by msyself at midnight but commuting is totally fine.[/quote]

Agree, NP.  Been riding metro regularly since the mid-90s. Mostly red, green line EOTP. I will say there are not infrequently obnoxious teenagers and spaced out/sleeping (what look to be) homeless folks; panhandlers, music, loud cellphones, yes. But I'm not sure I've ever seen a physical altercation, or really any altercation, much less a crime, unless hopping turnstiles counts. And zero masturbation, sorry Fox news poster.  :roll: [/quote]

Two murders this year alone.

I ride twice a day, either red or green line through NE, and twice this year there has been someone acting potentially violent enough for everyone else to clear the car. A third time a man threatened to stab anyone who stood near him but said anyone who didn’t come close was fine. [/quote]

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