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why don't they just take wmata? The Metrorail is immune to traffic.

• ryandrake 2y ago
  These people see themselves as aristocrats. You don't expect them to travel with the commoners? They might have to see or even touch someone below them.
  • macintux 2y ago
    Mike Dukakis regularly took the Boston subway to work as governor.
    • ycombinatrix 2y ago
      Donald Trump regularly eats McDonald's. They're just like us!
    • porphyra 2y ago
      Joe Biden commuted daily from Delaware to Washington, D.C. on Amtrak during his Senate years and was nicknamed "Amtrak Joe" as a result.
• jcranmer 2y ago
  I think many of the people being flown by helicopters would go apoplectic if they had to rub shoulders with the hoi polloi in public transit.
  • m4rtink 2y ago
    Maybe tat is still better than you know, being dead ? Due to flying out of a horrendously unsafe airport.
    • hulitu 2y ago
      > Maybe tat is still better than you know, being dead ? Different people have different priorities. /s
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• throw0101a 2y ago
  > why don't they just take wmata? The Metrorail is immune to traffic. “An advanced city is not one where the poor own a car, but one where the rich use public transport.” — Enrique Peñalosa (then-mayor of Bogotá), https://www.ted.com/talks/enrique_penalosa_why_buses_represent_democracy_in_action/transcript https://www.ted.com/talks/enrique_penalosa_why_buses_represe... (Sometimes attributed to differently: “A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.” ― Gustavo Petro)