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In Tokyo rush hour

Yup, 2 hours. For the cheaper COL and some other things going on in my life, it's manageable. It could be more like 1h 15min if I left real early and drove.....but I rather ride transit and least do something and have it take an extra hour.

10 minutes really isn't that bad. If you get to the station randomly, you would expect a 5 minute wait on average, which is plenty reasonable. If the trains are packed elbow to elbow, it's a different story, but I haven't seen pre-covid packed trains in a while.

Between metro and my bike I haven’t driven in 2 weeks. Work day starts the moment I walk in the door, ends the moment I leave, been since august and I have never been happier nor healthier with all the reading and riding I’ve been doing in the time I used to spend fighting traffic. Door-to-door it is actually faster because I don’t have to park and walk to my office.

Anyone else find waiting for an Uber 10x more unbearable than waiting for a metro? Even if I’m in the comfort of my home the wait and price is annoying as hell.

It’s been over two decades since I’ve left my small hometown that only had two stoplights and where cars were required. I will never take a 10-15 wait for metro for granted. Even when an hour metrobus wait is a pain, I’ll take that over car payments I wouldn’t be able to afford.

Yeah, the election interference was preferable. Cause if this is about the hush money and he gets out from under it, his people are going to be riled the fuck up.

My frustration probably comes from living in other large cities with public trans. Once you have to time your trips, it doesn't really count as functional working transportation for me. It means that for important things, i should not count on public transportation. And it is not like the fare is cheaper than other cities .

Yea that would be an acceptable headway.

Cro mags played a show at comet ping pong a month ago.

My nuanced take is that 10-minute headways aren’t that bad and I don’t mind them, but I still want Metro to do so much better. Even getting back to pre-pandemic service levels would be awesome.

I filed this past Tuesday and at a curiosity looked at my OTR account, and the refund had already been approved and I had a credit posted on my account...assuming I will see the refund next week.

I've never seen them so fast...

In the app go to the sidebar then "view profile." In the account settings section it should say the number of stations visited and which % of riders you're in. I'm not sure how they calculate it but it seems like it's by total stations visited rather than total distance or amount of rides, so it could be more accurate

What does OP think an acceptable headway is? Every 2 minutes?

If you arrive at exactly the point in time every day that hit max headways you have a whole different set of cosmic issues.

If you have to use it every day, it’s a legitimate take.

Fun fact: like may other curved arch ceilings, you can hear what other people are saying on the other side of the tracks if you stand in the right spot to catch the echo

Green currently has 7/8 min headways. Sometimes service gaps occur. 10 isn’t terrible. Get an app and time your trips.

‘I had to wait ten minutes - all transit is bad’ is a take.

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I still drive. From where I live, it would take me an hour with multiple transfers to get to work for my mandatory in office day. By car? 15-20 minutes with a straight shot to the office. By bike is 30 minutes.

Maybe there is something happening on the line that is creating a delay. Man, people complain a lot about the Metro but almost every time I've ridden it I've found it to be pretty efficient. And 10 minutes between trains...every once in awhile (their timetable says 8 minutes between trains during most times) is not a long wait. Just try driving a few miles in DC, Metro is a pretty good deal. I think they do a great job.

I took the bus recently for the first time since the pandemic and I was so motion sick 😩

Major in Georgetown has a bunch of officially licensed New Era caps, including a few exclusive Nats designs. They're appointment-only however and the atmosphere can be kind of intimidating if you're not used to that type of streetwear boutique.

Other streetwear boutiques like Atmos, Commonwealth, or A Ma Maniere might carry Nats hats as well, but none of them are originally from DC. (Commonwealth is based in VA I believe.)