I’ve been in the DC area 3 times in the last 6 months and have used the DC Metro subway , busses and AmTrak ... what the DC area has built with funds taken from me in Florida is so far superior to any other urban transit system I find it hard to believe they can’t compete.
Same good experience for me when professional development took me to NIST in Gaithersburg MD in 2003, 2004, & 2005. My experience included arriving at either BWI or Reagan, going to Union Station & taking the Red Line to G-burg, returning one evening to do the monuments. All three times, I caught a ride with a local for the return trip to the airport. Way better experience than Chicago and Atlanta.