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Meh. Flying into Baltimore is usually cheaper anyway, and DC area public transit is fantastic. (Well, compared to Ohio.)

by sprout 16y ago

ganley 16y ago
Not compared to much of anywhere else. If you live outside the beltway (and BTW, Dulles Airport is WAY outside the beltway) then our public transit system is useless. Even inside the beltway, it's slow, expensive, and unreliable. (Note: I am a huge fan of public transit, so that's not a general bash. DC's sucks unless both ends of your trip are within walking distance of a subway station.)
- Tamerlin 16y ago
  You're ahead of Seattle. I came here from DC, and wow what a step backward. As it turns out, we had a trolley-based mass transit system until GM and Ford (and Exxon?) bought it up and dismantled it. (No joke.) When I lived in Sterling, it was a 15-minute drive to Dulles. When I moved to Silver Spring, it was a 45-minute drive. From Sterling, there were no mass transit options whatsoever, AFAIK. Of course, with a 15-minute trip, there's really not much incentive to look for alternatives. From Silver Spring, you CAN get to Dulles via mass transit... I had to walk to a bus stop, take the red line downtown, change to the orange line out to West Falls Church, and take a Washington Flyer to the airport: 2.5 hours. So I agree... worthless. I also found that biking from Silver Spring to Crystal City took approximately the same amount of time as the bus/metro combination, and had fewer delays. Would you believe, btw, that Seattle's equivalent to the Metropass has a 24-hour latency? So if you put money on it, you have to wait for 24 hours before you can use it?
mdg 16y ago
COTA rocks!............
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eli 16y ago
Public transit from BWI means, you either have to take Amtrak, MARC (only on weekdays), or a bus to the Metro (which can take 45-60 minutes during rush hour). If you're flying from Ohio, it will probably take you longer to get from BWI to your destination in DC than from Ohio to BWI.
- kn0thing 16y ago
  I often train into the BWI Amtrak station, so if you happen to ever see a tall white guy with a reddit/breadpig/YC/threadless shirt (I don't have a lot of diversity) -- say hi! And then we can lament the often crappy service together.
- sprout 16y ago
  Presently I'm in the middle of nowhere, on the other side of the country. Ohio is just the only thing I have for comparison.

Meh. Flying into Baltimore is usually cheaper anyway, and DC area public transit is fantastic. (Well, compared to Ohio.)

by sprout 16y ago

Meh. Flying into Baltimore is usually cheaper anyway, and DC area public transit is fantastic. (Well, compared to Ohio.)

ganley 16y ago

Not compared to much of anywhere else. If you live outside the beltway (and BTW, Dulles Airport is WAY outside the beltway) then our public transit system is useless. Even inside the beltway, it's slow, expensive, and unreliable. (Note: I am a huge fan of public transit, so that's not a general bash. DC's sucks unless both ends of your trip are within walking distance of a subway station.)

Tamerlin 16y ago
You're ahead of Seattle. I came here from DC, and wow what a step backward. As it turns out, we had a trolley-based mass transit system until GM and Ford (and Exxon?) bought it up and dismantled it. (No joke.) When I lived in Sterling, it was a 15-minute drive to Dulles. When I moved to Silver Spring, it was a 45-minute drive. From Sterling, there were no mass transit options whatsoever, AFAIK. Of course, with a 15-minute trip, there's really not much incentive to look for alternatives. From Silver Spring, you CAN get to Dulles via mass transit... I had to walk to a bus stop, take the red line downtown, change to the orange line out to West Falls Church, and take a Washington Flyer to the airport: 2.5 hours. So I agree... worthless. I also found that biking from Silver Spring to Crystal City took approximately the same amount of time as the bus/metro combination, and had fewer delays. Would you believe, btw, that Seattle's equivalent to the Metropass has a 24-hour latency? So if you put money on it, you have to wait for 24 hours before you can use it?

mdg 16y ago

COTA rocks!............

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eli 16y ago

Public transit from BWI means, you either have to take Amtrak, MARC (only on weekdays), or a bus to the Metro (which can take 45-60 minutes during rush hour). If you're flying from Ohio, it will probably take you longer to get from BWI to your destination in DC than from Ohio to BWI.

kn0thing 16y ago
I often train into the BWI Amtrak station, so if you happen to ever see a tall white guy with a reddit/breadpig/YC/threadless shirt (I don't have a lot of diversity) -- say hi! And then we can lament the often crappy service together.
sprout 16y ago
Presently I'm in the middle of nowhere, on the other side of the country. Ohio is just the only thing I have for comparison.