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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some companies provide free/reduced parking but not transit benefits so its plainly cheaper. [/quote]

This is crazy. Maybe employers should change this policy and also provide free/reduced metro passes. That would ease the congestion a bit.[/quote]

Most companies that provide free/reduced parking ALSO provide transit benefits.  It's usually pick one or the other.

The problem is that a lot of people don't actually live in a situation where they can walk to metro (the safe areas are too expensive and the rest just isn't safe to walk after dark),[b] so they have to drive to metro, pay for parking at metro [/b]and then take metro to work.   So it is not only more expensive, but it usually takes longer than driving (even with our horrible traffic around here), because you have to leave time to drive to metro, park, walk to the station, then wait 10/15 minutes for a train, et cetera, et cetera.

Most people around here work long hours, so an extra 30-40 minutes a day in commuting time is a lot.[/quote]

There's always the constant entertainment of the bus if one doesn't want to drive/park at Metro. Anyway, the large majority of stations in DC proper don't have parking anyway.[/quote]

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