🚀 go-pugleaf

>The machines are great for tourists, and people who don't depend on
>fare-dispensing very often.  They are a disaster for me (and many of
>my peers).  Let's not mention the fact that it takes 10 minutes just
>to get in and out of every station.  It takes longer to get into and
>out of the station than it takes for my ENTIRE RIDE on the train to
>work.

Why don't you go to Metro center, to a machine, or to a Safeway and buy 
one of those metrocards with $20 worth of fares on them? You get a 10% 
bonus ($2 more) when you buy one.  Better yet, I believe there is some 
type of card, valid for a month, which allows unlimited use on the metro 
system.  Buses and subways, going anywhere and anytime.  I think it's 
around $65.
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>Give me the efficient, under the street (but smelly), NYC subways,
>over the huge manmade caverns, with escalators to the center of the
>earth, METRO.  Metrorail is not really a subway system anyway, it is a
>commuter train.
>

NYC subways efficient? Get real.  Smelly? No argument there.  Also, ever 
notice a larger portion of people on those subways who are street 
urchins and essentially live on the NYC subway (because it's never 
closed)? Since the DC system closes at midnight, you're much less likely 
to have to deal with one of those disgusting derelicts while riding.


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