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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Metro went really downhill during and after COVID. I say that as a daily Metro commuter, pre and post COVID.  It goes in line with the general observation that people seemed to have forgotten how to act in public during COVID and that rule enforcement was lax on the metro when ridership dropped. There is a lot more issues with homeless soliciting on the metro, teens fighting or assaulting people, and general uncleanliness (openly smoking on the metro and, in one foul case, a homeless man defecating all over his seat and the floor around him that spread.) I never experienced this in the 15 years pre-COVID, and all of this in the last 3 years.

With that being said, while it's gotten worse, it's the minority of the time I spend on the metro and these are issues that you see in most other major public transit systems. I do feel safe taking my kid on the train, and we use it regularly. She'll need to learn to navigate the system if she's growing up here.[/quote]

This is accurate. I think a lot of posters are invested in their urban lifestyles and refuse to see, at least admit, the obvious.  There are definitely more people evading fares, panhandling right outside the stations or turnstiles, sleeping or nodding out in the seats, and otherwise behaving erratically or even in a hostile manner on the trains.  It’s not at a level that dissuades me from riding Metro, but my guard is up generally in a way that wasn’t the case pre-Covid.

And the situation on the streets in downtown DC is similar.  It’s like some people lost their support networks and then their minds, and now just wander around like angry zombies.[/quote]

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