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[quote=Anonymous]I have in the past regularly taken the bus, the metro, or my bike to work downtown depending on where I was living at the time. The things I personally noticed that would help:

The bike trail gets super dark on the VA side after you pass the airport. I had a good headlight but still felt like I could hit a branch and go flying.  Wish there were more light posts.

On nice evenings the trail would get super crowded and a*hole cyclists would still be going 30mph zooming past families…need a separate trail or lane I guess.

More reliable bus times, switching around on the different apps is annoying. It’s stressful to sit on the train or bus trying to figure out how fast you need to run to catch the connection.
 
Less time between metro trains would hopefully increase ridership. No one wants to wait 20 mins.

Later bus service from Pentagon. It starts super early because they expect mostly military to be riding, but it means I have to leave my office at 5:30 on the dot to catch the metro over to pentagon and make the last bus home. Sometimes they leave a few minutes early and you’re screwed, I’ve ended up taking group Ubers from there in order to ride the express lanes and get home without sitting in traffic.

I have no complaints with the actual buses I’ve been on, there were only a few times I felt unsafe when there was a mentally ill person on board and it was late at night.  I’ve taken them all over the city and tend to prefer them over the train.  I love biking as well but it can be stressful with aggressive drivers and cyclists around you. I’ve been hit a few times and had to be late to work to get a CT scan as a result. [/quote]

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