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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How/when did Union Station get so bad? I used to go there and enjoy dinner with friends every now and then. Did they kill it with all the construction? [/quote]

It's terrible. When I was there in November, my train got in at around 8 PM, so not really that late, and the circus I saw was unreal. Two homeless ladies fighting over a nook for sleeping, a guy staggering around with a whisky bottle and yelling at everything, and another guy outside the escalator down took a massive shit right on the street.

All of this was in view of several officers. They did nothing.

OP - if you're going to have her ride Metro in, make sure she loads money digitally beforehand. She doesn't need to be feeding money in the machine there at night with all of the homeless around. My mom's card glitched and she had to add funds when we returned from our NYC trip over the summer. She had her back to her surroundings and I foolishly was not paying attention, on my phone seeing when the next train was arriving. Anyway, a homeless guy grabbed at her trying to get her money and wallet. When I heard her startled yelp, I got really loud and big, like scaring a bear away, and he ran. Best part, a officer was walking in that direction and laughed how she'd have to try that next time.

WMATA is utterly useless. [/quote]

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