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We don't need all Americans to give up their cars. We just need fewer people to drive in urban centers. Much of NYC, SF, Boston, DC and Chicago are already on
by kdmccormick 3y ago
We don't need all Americans to give up their cars. We just need fewer people to drive in urban centers.
Much of NYC, SF, Boston, DC and Chicago are already on board with this. They have been for decades.
It's wannabe-suburbanites constantly driving through dense cities that's the problem, not Chuck from rural Maine driving to the town grocery store.
- dvngnt_ 3y agoWMATA sucks. a car is extremely useful in the dmv. too many service interruptions, doesn't work late night, underfunded, homeless, getting robbed by youth
- shiroiuma 3y agoI used to live in DC and took the DC Metro countless times. I never had or saw problems with crime, though perhaps it was because I was usually in northern Virginia and not the southeast part of DC. However, the level of service is not great; it takes too long between trains, it's really terrible later at night, and it just doesn't go that many places, so you need a car if your source or destination isn't close to the station or possibly a bus line. I will give them credit though: they finally extended the Silver line all the way to Dulles, so you don't need to take a taxi or special bus there now.
- dvngnt_ 3y agoI assume NoVA is fine, but parts of DC/PG county are rougher at night walking to and from stops. it's possible to rely on it, but there are a lot services outages that will mess you up