These lights are great for bikes as well. It’s a noticeable downgrade when riding out in the burbs where there are no such leading signals (or none where I go at least)

Exactly, the idea that people around here think that 8 or 10 minutes is reasonable almost all other major cities worldwide have figured it out boggles the mind. Hell even with our crumbling infrastructure in the US this is way behind other cities like NYC, Philly, and Boston. I’m so sick of people saying be grateful for the crappy things we have when we’re trailing behind and paying a premium.

Yeah I wouldn't knock someone for wearing one that's for sure haha. My opinion is just for my personal fashion

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I’d pass on Mosaic, the clothing/shoe sections are always soooooo messy. Even right after opening. That store stresses me out. It’s fine for groceries or whatever but I can’t look for clothes there. The one is fair oaks is far but last time I went there (a random weekday morning) it was so clean and quiet. There’s also a new-ish (I think) target off leesburg pike in falls church that’s huge and not as far as fair oaks

Because of the war with Russia, Kiev metro had to reduce the frequency of it's lines off peak to 6 minutes. On peak times without a war, the headways are 1 hr 40 minutes. It's not a first-world problem, it's a carbrained problem.

https://twitter.com/threestationsq/status/1572163173066706944?lang=en

8 minutes isn’t reasonable either. When I first moved here, I thought how great the metro was by comparison to the subways in NYC & Philly. DC metro is newer and cleaner but with these waits and lack of train staggered for those that have to chain lines, I’m eating those words. I’ll take dirty, grimy, and never having to check a schedule again any day.

Look at the MPD crime cards for each address for the past year, past 2 years

https://crimecards.dc.gov/

Walk around during the daytime weekdays and weekends and after dark. See what your comfort level is.

i never drive but tbh i don't even use metro either. i walk or bike everywhere i need to go but that's only because the nearest metro stations to me are all farther away than most of the places i need or want to go. if metro had more extensive coverage of the city and ran more frequently i would use it regularly. fuck cars though.

“How much more would you be driving if you needed to drive somewhere but didn’t have an alternative mode of transportation?”

“I guess I would drive more frequently.”

“Thant makes sense. More. Gotcha.”

Sometimes it takes posts like these for me to appreciate living in this city. Stopping at Metro Center is nearly a weekly event for me so I just blow through the station and don't appreciate it for what it's worth. Great photo OP! And from someone who used to live in a Midwest city, I hear you.

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Ahhh I didn’t see that, just the bookstore and I thought it was lost city books.

I mean in all fairness the majority of non-black people on earth would probably not prefer their daughter marry a black man.

I think a lot of white people in America today have trouble admitting that to themselves. To include people who voted for Obama.

I lived in both and personally prefer DuPont, even though my studio was insanely small

yuraku is good and has happy hour. not sure it’s “cheap” though

100% agree

You know when people ask me if East Asians are racist towards black people, I usually have to preface it with there is a sliding scale of racism toward African Americans.

1. Highest level of racism: enslaving an entire race of people creating a multinational industry to capture, transport them from africa and sell them in the Americas. From the 16th to the 19th century.

2. Murdering people and using threats or violence to perpetuate a system of race based authority and rule. Jim Crowe south from the end of the civil war until the 1970s.

3. Systemically denying a race of people civil rights and implementing second class citizenship supported by the government. Same as #2, but arguably a significant issue up until the early 1990s and lingering to this day.

4. Individual cases of racist violence not supported by the govt. 2009 Charleston mass shooting.

5. Being mean or something less than perfectly fair to someone because of their race. Not wanting someone to marry your daughter because he's black.

There might be some of 5) going on amongst East Asians, but not 1-4.

This is pretty far down the list of things to take issue with when it comes to WMATA. Pearl clutching over 10 minute lead times at 4 am is a bit much.

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noma kind of sucks as a neighborhood, so be sure to factor that into your decision

Yea I hate it when a restaurant puts their menu online and then won’t go out of their way to cater to my personal dietary restrictions.

My battery keeps on dying because I only start her up MAYBE once a week or more

Yeah I wanted to grab coffee at Union Market today from the upper NW. Took my car since it was a little windy. Big mistake. Ended up driving to the area, hit traffic and just went home hitting more traffic. Ended up being more than an hour back and forth. Next time I’ll metro lol.