The Official DC/Maryland/Virginia Area Thread

[Kyle Barker]

It's even crazy DC is top 3 and had been above Chicago for such a long time when you consider the population of DC compared to Chicagol

Well Chicago's metro area pop is roughly 9M while DC's metro area pop is 6M. Add the fact that DC's traffic has always been among the worst, and the people who live in the Bmore metro area (2.5M) but work in the DC area.

 

[VladTheImpaler]

Raleigh, NC

Almost everything surrounding my life costs less and is less stressful so far.

 

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

All the time? Not just pop ups?

Yeah this place is a storefront.

 

[young yeesh]

The west side of the beltway (Montgomery County, MD, upper NW DC and Northern VA) is slathered with mayonaisse and no black people want to live there because the cacs, Asians, Indians, Africans and Latinos who live there be on that tip heavy.

Stop you spitting too many facts

 

[the bossman]

Metro went down to number 3 most used rapid transit system

All the track maintenance and cutting back on weekend hours. I remember some Saturdays it was like 20 mins between each train. It just got to a point where it's like fukk it. Just hop in a uber

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Where the fukk you from mo? Yo ass wellin like shyt

His goofy ass is from the Bay Area talking all that shyt out his mouth

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Metro went down to number 3 most used rapid transit system

I’d prolly attribute some of that to Metro’s SafeTrack fukkery over the last few years as well as cutting last call weekend service from 3:20 AM to 2:00 AM as a result.

 

[FAH1223]

I lived there for over 10 years. Just moved away a month ago. The best decision I ever made in my life.

The traffic, shytty weather, cost of living, heavy police presence and large amount of bed winches and bed bucks was sucking the life out of me.

where in the area were you living?

 

[phcitywarrior]

Never been to Chicago but based on what I’ve read they don’t do extensions they focus on mainetance of their system

But it goes to show how poor public transport in the US is

Yea public transport in the US is piss poor, even for the North eastern arm of the country.

Well Chicago's metro area pop is roughly 9M while DC's metro area pop is 6M. Add the fact that DC's traffic has always been among the worst, and the people who live in the Bmore metro area (2.5M) but work in the DC area.

This is true, but Chicago proper has 4x the number of people as DC (2.8 million to 700k). I would think that the large population variance alone would push its ridership over DC's by a large amount. However, chicago only barely edges out DC for annual ridership.

All the track maintenance and cutting back on weekend hours. I remember some Saturdays it was like 20 mins between each train. It just got to a point where it's like fukk it. Just hop in a uber

Yea, outside of rush hour the metro can be very frustrating. The Green line is chronically under-serviced. Waiting like 15 mins for trains heading to Greenbelt from either Chinatown or Fort Tottem. That purple line needs to happen quickly.

London's bus network is far better than the Metro.

If the metro looked like this

 

[Kyle Barker]

This is true, but Chicago proper has 4x the number of people as DC (2.8 million to 700k). I would think that the large population variance alone would push its ridership over DC's by a large amount. However, chicago only barely edges out DC for annual ridership.

Yeah but all the lines in DC's system extend well into the suburbs so its all the same.

If the metro looked like this

I think if we at least add light rail in these areas it would make a huge difference.

 

[OG Talk]

where in the area were you living?

First 5 years Northeast DC. Last 6 years Prince William County, VA. Woodbridge

 

[FAH1223]

First 5 years Northeast DC. Last 6 years Prince William County, VA. Woodbridge

that commute

 

[UberEatsDriver]

All the track maintenance and cutting back on weekend hours. I remember some Saturdays it was like 20 mins between each train. It just got to a point where it's like fukk it. Just hop in a uber

I find it weird that DC subway is newer than NYC Subway but the engineers didn’t built interlocking tunnels or express service.

With interlocking tunnels or a third or fourth track, trains can simply use another track or another line instead of constantly having to deal with buses to replace them.

We use shuttle buses here also but that’s only if the maintenance covered both directions or if it involves some of the few two track stations we have.

I do admire that the DC subway goes to throughout the metro tho and doesn’t just stay inside DC.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Never been to Chicago but based on what I’ve read they don’t do extensions they focus on mainetance of their system

But it goes to show how poor public transport in the US is

Chicago residents from what I understand heavily use the bus.

 

[OG Talk]

that commute

It tore up two of my vehicles and my hairline



I got priced out of the city though.