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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They really need to put one in. Thoughts?[/quote]

My thought is they needed to put a very large parking garage at the King St metro. 
If there were parking, people who live there would drive and park at the metro station and take metro.

I hate, hate, hate the magical thinking of "people will use public transportation to get to public transportation despite that adding anywhere from a half hour to an hour to their commute!"  
There is no evidence that people in this area are going to abandon their cars even to go 1 mile. [/quote]

No.  The King/Callahan/Russell intersection is bad enough as is.  There is nothing difficult about the 15-20 minute walk or 5 minute bus ride from Taylor Run.  Talk about privileged. [/quote]

How often do the buses come?  I had this discussion with someone about Bethesda.  I live more like 2-2.5 miles from the metro and drive in.  It is too far to walk daily and the bus comes every half hour even in rush and would transform an 8-10 minute ride into 20+.  Unless the buses came very frequently, which isn't realistic, there is just no way I am going to take the bus despite the cost of parking.  This is particularly true since I have to get kids and get them to activities and the chance of bus routes lining up is very low.

It's simply a fantasy that some have that people will turn to public transportation to get to metro and restricting parking, as some advocate, is fool hardy.[/quote]

Metrobuses now have pretty accurate GPS tracking which makes it a lot more pleasant to catch a bus[/quote]

I'm PP and I agree that helps, but only so much when the bus only comes every 30 minutes.  It may not be possible to time leaving in the morning to the bus (e.g. the metro bus left right after the school bus and I couldn't afford to wait 30 minutes for the next one) and it is even harder to try to time things on the backend when a metro ride precedes catching the bus.  And of course the bus still take a good bit longer than driving yourself.

With the gps I have definitely been times I have used the bus in the morning when I had flexibility or got lucky.  If I got lucky on the backend, great, if not an uber home is about the same price as parking.  But it just isn't a viable alternative most days.

The cost to have the buses come every 5 or 10 minutes would be staggering and I still don't think demand would improve that much.[/quote]

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