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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Metro stations, metro stations, metro stations.

DC's metro stops are not frequent or convenient enough and I hate the bus.

I grew up in the NYC area and people primarily use [b]Metro North/NJ transit trains[/b] to get in/out of the city and around the city because it is by far more convenient and faster to do so.

That's unfortunately not true in the DC area.[/quote]

The analogy in the DC area is MARC and VRE.[/quote]

When you look at an actual geographical map of METRO it makes it clear its like a mixed regional rail / local subway system.[/quote]

Agreed, but there simply are not going to be Metro stops at in-DC densities in the suburbs, plus the further out you go, the longer it takes to get there on Metro. It's already a long trip to Shady Grove (or Glenmont). The extension to Germantown would be an even longer trip, at a high construction cost, and it doesn't make sense financially or transportationally because MARC already goes to Germantown and will get you there faster. Or at least it would get you there faster if it ran as often as Metro North/NJ transit. [/quote]

But even in DC, the density isn't adequate. We live in Langston/Kingman Park area area. There's a metro and a bus and a streetcar, but metro would be faster if we had a station at Oklahoma Ave (was protested years ago) and metro closer to where we work. Kids go to school/daycare on Capitol Hill and I work on Children's/Medstar campus which has shuttles to/from a couple metro stations, but those add time on to the commute. Spouse works in Virginia.  With two full time jobs and two kids, it is faster and far more efficient to drive than metro/bus/streetcar . When it's faster to do public transportation, we'd do it, but it's not logistical for us.[/quote]

The more subway stations a subway stops at, the slower the subway is...[/quote]

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