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You obviously don't use it to commute. Beyond the horrible service, arcing insulators, fires, crashes, they also close lines down, a whole bunch of stations, for months on end, for renovations. The escalators don't work. The system is a nightmare. If they had a japanese style system here, I agree it would be better and possibly a viable alternative to driving. But that's not what we have we. We have a national embarrassment. A disgrace.[/quote]

[b]The driving equivalent of all of these things happen when you're driving on the roads - especially fires and crashes. How many times have you been delayed by a crash while driving? That's like half of the morning "drive time" news.[/b][/quote]

THIS!!!!  I used to drive to Ft Meade and use BWI Pkwy (got on right at Bladensburg) and EVERY.FREAKIN.MORNING there was an accident or stalled car that caused a delay both in the morning and evenings.  I work downtown now and take metro all of 5 stops (reason why I changed jobs) and would not ever go back to commuting on these roads!  It's INSANE! Yes, the RL can be troublesome occasionally, but you cannot get me back on these roads, (well, maybe if my salary was doubled :wink: )[/quote]

Yep, Metro has around an 89% on time percentage, which is defined as no more than a 3 minute delay from the normal schedule. Expand that to 5 minutes and you're looking at 90%+.

Any DC driver that says 9 out of 10 drives have less than 5 minutes of delays is straight up lying. [/quote]

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