Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Metro is probably the safest option. You go from Amtrak to Metro while staying inside the entire time. The trouble and vagrants are mostly outside, like where you'd go to pick up an Uber. The transit police don't bother them out there, that's why.

Metro runs until midnight. Here's a link to the trip planner. 10:32pm Red Line train, connect at Metro Center, arrive Reston at 11:48pm:

https://www.wmata.com/schedules/trip-planner/trip-planner-results.cfm?locationLatLng=38.89759%2C-77.006096&destinationLatLng=38.9589096%2C-77.3614631&first-form=&location=UNION+STATION&destination=RESTON+TOWN+CENTER&travelby-trip-planner=BCFKLRSTX123&arrdep-trip-planner=D&hour-leaving-trip-planner=10&minute-leaving-trip-planner=15&period-leaving-trip-planner=PM&month-leaving-trip-planner=7&day-leaving-trip-planner=21&route-trip-planner=T&walk-distance-trip-planner=.75

I thought it closed at 10? And doesn't the metro run slower at night? I'm also concerned the train will be late coming home and he will arrive much later. The more I think about it, he should take the train there for the experience and take the bus home, where he can be picked up in Tysons or Vienna, then we can take him to get his car at the metro station in Reston.

I'm reading that since the pandemic, the inside at night is occupied with mentally ill and drug addicts that are aggressive. He is not a large or tough looking kid. He will be preyed upon.

I understand his need to spread his wings but there is no consideration for safety here at all. He should be going with a friend, at least.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Metro is probably the safest option. You go from Amtrak to Metro while staying inside the entire time. The trouble and vagrants are mostly outside, like where you'd go to pick up an Uber. The transit police don't bother them out there, that's why.

Metro runs until midnight. Here's a link to the trip planner. 10:32pm Red Line train, connect at Metro Center, arrive Reston at 11:48pm:

https://www.wmata.com/schedules/trip-planner/trip-planner-results.cfm?locationLatLng=38.89759%2C-77.006096&destinationLatLng=38.9589096%2C-77.3614631&first-form=&location=UNION+STATION&destination=RESTON+TOWN+CENTER&travelby-trip-planner=BCFKLRSTX123&arrdep-trip-planner=D&hour-leaving-trip-planner=10&minute-leaving-trip-planner=15&period-leaving-trip-planner=PM&month-leaving-trip-planner=7&day-leaving-trip-planner=21&route-trip-planner=T&walk-distance-trip-planner=.75

I thought it closed at 10? And doesn't the metro run slower at night? I'm also concerned the train will be late coming home and he will arrive much later. The more I think about it, he should take the train there for the experience and take the bus home, where he can be picked up in Tysons or Vienna, then we can take him to get his car at the metro station in Reston.

I'm reading that since the pandemic, the inside at night is occupied with mentally ill and drug addicts that are aggressive. He is not a large or tough looking kid. He will be preyed upon.

I understand his need to spread his wings but there is no consideration for safety here at all. He should be going with a friend, at least.

Anonymous wrote:Metro is probably the safest option. You go from Amtrak to Metro while staying inside the entire time. The trouble and vagrants are mostly outside, like where you'd go to pick up an Uber. The transit police don't bother them out there, that's why.

Metro runs until midnight. Here's a link to the trip planner. 10:32pm Red Line train, connect at Metro Center, arrive Reston at 11:48pm:

https://www.wmata.com/schedules/trip-planner/trip-planner-results.cfm?locationLatLng=38.89759%2C-77.006096&destinationLatLng=38.9589096%2C-77.3614631&first-form=&location=UNION+STATION&destination=RESTON+TOWN+CENTER&travelby-trip-planner=BCFKLRSTX123&arrdep-trip-planner=D&hour-leaving-trip-planner=10&minute-leaving-trip-planner=15&period-leaving-trip-planner=PM&month-leaving-trip-planner=7&day-leaving-trip-planner=21&route-trip-planner=T&walk-distance-trip-planner=.75

Anonymous wrote:Union Station is deserted now. I have to go through it during rush hour on weekdays. Even though I know the station very well, I don’t know that I would be super comfortable going through at 10pm.

Anonymous wrote:

Bullet train? Reston is a place where "country folk" live? A 20 yr unable to navigate a way home?

Is this a troll?

I guess nobody should tell Op there are a ton of homeless people loitering around Union Station .

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. We are simple country folk, albeit with a lot of money. Used to private everything. So yes, this will be a maiden voyage for him and yes, I'm a bit nervous. Out of my wheelhouse

Has he done this trip with return during the day? Ie this is not his first trip on his own?

Anonymous wrote:

5. For future trips: are there any NYC buses that run from Reston? (I don't know) I like the train better than the bus overall, but for a quick run to NYC I like the Vamoose bus from Arlington just because it saves the trip downtown. It also stops in Bethesda.

There is one that runs from the Vienna metro that I've taken to save the trip downtown.

I didn't realize there was parking at Union Station - I will have to check that out for future trips.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. We are simple country folk, albeit with a lot of money. Used to private everything. So yes, this will be a maiden voyage for him and yes, I'm a bit nervous. Out of my wheelhouse

Anonymous wrote:This is how he becomes more street savvy, OP. Let him figure it out. You told him when he was a kid no talking to strangers, right? What exactly do you think will happen?