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This dumb bunny gets it wrong every time. Unless there is a major event on a Sunday, there are no crowds of “a thousand” on a NYC subway car. A thousand people couldn’t fit in a subway car. Subways are quiet on Sunday. Just as I’m sure the DC Metro is.
I’ve ridden Metro on some visits to Washington. As a tourist or occasional rider, you may not take note of some major problems.
A friend of the family lives there, and she used to take Metro to work. Between the costs of riding and the aggravation, she decided to buy a small car for commuting. She figured the additional cost of the car was not much more than the cost of riding Metro.
She told us the aggravation of being in rush hour traffic in a car is more tolerable, than the aggravation of being packed in a subway car.
That's insane. Mass transit is probably the best way to cut down on negative environmental impacts. Even when it's less than perfect, it has advantages over fighting against huge semis for a lane on an interstate.
In Jan and Nov lasts year, I did round trips Cleveland-DC-Baltimore on AMTRAK. I found the DC station to be very well run, very clean, and with a lot of food/shopping options. It was local trains connecting DC and Baltimore. Four times doing that route, no problems, no delays, all four trips on weekdays.
Wasn’t she seen in her New York neighborhood being picked up by a chauffeured SUV? Besides being packed into a filthy Metro with the sweating masses might soil her designer clothes and Gucci shoes.
Alexandria does her best communicating with Interpretive Dance.
“What’s she saying with all that shaking, Bob?”
“Well, she’s either saying that Pelosi is mean, or she lost her subway token and she’s trying to shake it loose.”
Airhead...
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The obsession with this moron is baffling to me.
Automobiles are mass transit.
And back when privately owned, there used to be first class cars on some urban-type railroads.
Metro is dirty, broken escalators everywhere, and a snow-storm stops operation. If the train stalls in a tunnel, the riders are screwed.
I am just amazed that she found something, anything to say that is good with the US.
So the rep who claims she is from the Bronx just dirts the MTA and praises her new constituents in DC. Winner.
Drive out more business in NY why dontcha.
It’s nice when the children start to get out of their local watering hole neighborhood and begin to see the rest of the world. I saw New York’s subways in the 60s and didn’t see those in DC until about 90. It had better ceramic tile.
This problem, of course, is not limited to Metrorail. It is chronic in the public sector when politicians with very short term horizons and an eye on the next election are ultimately calling the shots. They see the unions as political allies and are willing to pay the Danegeld to buy them off. All of this is complicated in DC by the fact that the feds, two states, the city, and a motley collection of suburban counties spend most of their time insisting that someone else should be paying more.
The suburban counties, of course, think there is a simple solution. They are less Metro dependent to begin with. And they are less well served by a Metro system that was designed on a hub and spokes pattern to get commuters downtown. The closer you are to the center, the more lines you have converging in your area and the better served you are. Outer ring communities see Metro as marginal. So they think the solution is roads, and they demand that the feds and the states should wield eminent domain and spend every penny to ram arterial roads through other people's neighborhoods to accommodate people who want to live on leafy green cul de sacs 30 miles from their jobs. But that's an argument for a different day.
Of course, she doesn't have children so she can afford to pay more. She probably thinks poorly of breeders and does not intend to become one herself; I presume she is willing to outsource production of the next generation to third world immigrants, who will step up to do the jobs Americans no longer want to do for themselves.
Were she to actually have children, in her current location, she'd probably be looking at private schools, and she might start to develop greater appreciation for how real Americans live.
You can get by in NYC without a car. Subway all over the place and runs 24 hours. D.C. is limited number of lines and doesnt run overnight. If you live in DC, most will still need a car.
So who runs the Metro in NYC?
The filthy dirty crowded one?
Would that be THE GOVERNMENT??
They is the taxpayers of the entire country. In NYC's case they can only ream the drivers who use the bridges and the tunnels within NYC to pay for the subway system. (G-d forbid they should ask the USERS of the subway system to foot the bill.)
ML/NJ