Glad to hear it. Stay safe.

Did you drive drunk?

Nope but I walked around a bunch!

I’ve only been once, but my experience at Alamo was terrific, so I’d be willing to give them another chance.

I appreciate your comment, your personal experience, and your rationale, and I’m sorry you feel unsafe on Metro. That’s definitely a problem. I’m not unreasonable and I won’t try to vilify you for choosing an Uber over Metro while on a night out. As long as you’re not drunk driving, whatever you prefer is fine by me!

While I’m generally pro-transit/walking/biking as a means of getting around the city, and have a strong distaste for the way car-dependent thinking and engineering perverts our city, that’s another story. This post was specifically about dangerous drunk and impaired driving.

You are much more likely to be killed or injured in a car crash than in an incident on Metro or the bus.

The only conclusion I can draw from this comment is that you must always adhere to speed limits, stop signs, and other traffic laws with religious devotion.

Unless of course you think the traffic laws are the ones that are acceptable to be broken because “you’re not hurting anyone” and the 15 seconds you could save are really important?

Wow how are you able to avoid delays from traffic while driving? Sounds like you’ve cracked the code!

Any reason why you prefer to drive/Uber instead of using public transit?

Hell yeah Metro FTW!

Hey, exactly like that!

Sounds like the other driver wasn’t driving responsibly. Glad you’re okay.

All good options. Though DD’s can be sketchy (they typically have a drink or two). You could also walk.

I was asking people to share which method they used in lieu of drunk driving.

If you think 32 people killed a day is no big deal, I wonder if you’d think differently if you had to tell each one’s family that they had been killed, but that it’s okay, since it’s like 0.000001% of the US population.

These are preventable deaths. Please stop drinking and driving. You’re going to hurt or kill someone eventually.

100% agree we should stop organizing our communities around cars. Our cities should be easily walkable and bikeable and transit should be clean, safe, reliable, and regular. As you say, it’s as much a racial justice issue as anything else. Minorities would not be harassed by police and pulled over for pretextual reasons if they weren’t in their vehicles, where Fourth Amendment protections have been seriously eroded.

That said, “Every day, 32 people in the United States die in drunk driving car crashes. That’s one person every 45 minutes”. Drunk driving is worse than sober driving and you shouldn’t ever do it.

Mate, it’s dangerous to operate a 2-6 ton speeding metal box when you’re impaired, whether you think you’re impaired or not.

The shuffle from the couch to the bed is one of the more enjoyable commutes!

Congrats and good luck with sobriety!

I don’t think so. If there’s ice and debris and you are a sober and responsible driver, you slow down so you don’t crash.

If you think you can “drive perfectly fine drunk”, you are mistaken.

Seems reasonable.

Edit: I should add that there are many safe options for getting home after drinking while out and about, including waking, taking the metro or bus, even getting a cab/Uber/Lyft.

Lol. Even if I were, you know there’s no recourse for motor vehicle crimes and infractions in this city, silly goose.

How’d (edit) you get home?

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You might think you’re driving fast and safe, but you are not. Slow down.