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“Not everyone that fare evades commits criminal activity on our system,” he said. “But, almost universally … 99.9% of people that commit criminal acts in our system fare evade.”
Clarke believes that stopping fare-gate jumpers will also limit violence on Metro.
The city council probably thinks the solution is to just make it free for D.C. residents, so then the criminals don't have to fare evade to use Metro as a getaway vehicle.
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The city council probably thinks the solution is to just make it free for D.C. residents, so then the criminals don't have to fare evade to use Metro as a getaway vehicle.
They tried, but it got scrapped. I'm sure it will come back in the next legislative session:
The city council probably thinks the solution is to just make it free for D.C. residents, so then the criminals don't have to fare evade to use Metro as a getaway vehicle.
Cars make better getaway vehicles. You don’t have to wait 20 minutes for the next train, and don’t have to get a video of yourself being recorded at the station and inside the train.
Cars make better getaway vehicles. You don’t have to wait 20 minutes for the next train, and don’t have to get a video of yourself being recorded at the station and inside the train.
Cars aren't always readily available if you're a kid or just plain broke. We're not talking about meticulously planned heists or hits here.
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DC area metro parking garages have cameras throughout them, and this kind of crap still happens. Brazen is a good word to describe an attacker like this and more common than just a few years ago.
Police are searching for a man they say attempted to rape a woman at a Metro station in Rockville Monday night.
At 10:58 p.m., police said a woman reported that a man approached her from behind in the parking garage at the Shady Grove Metro Station as she was getting into her car. The man then forced her to the ground and attempted to rape her.
i'm in the top 2%. I would love to compare that to the "metro is great" crowd.
I’m in the “Metro is the greatest” in the U.S. crowd excluding the size discrepancy of NY. And one of the better metro rail systems in the world I’ve had experience with. I’d still tip it to NY as best in the U.S. being better because ultimately, frequency, scale and 24 hours matter to me more than clean stations, tbh.
I was just in NY. Trains to Brooklyn required a special shuttle train due to a lot of weekend track work. Add to a “police incident” that further shut down a part of that shuttle and I had to find alternate ways to get back to Manhattan. Some stations didn’t have very visible arrival times. Obviously dirtier. Trains seemed smaller. It didn’t annoy me because it happens. In Paris, the RER from the airport was shut down, required shuttle buses etc which was a hassle. The problems I’ve had on WMATA, I just really don’t find out of the ordinary.
Randy has made a big difference in most of the annoyances I had. There’s not much otherwise I have complaints other than more. More trains, more lines, more buses, more bus lanes, more buses with cameras more security, longer operating hours. We at least now have 24/7 bus routes & I’m personally happy with the new fare gates. Yeah, they could still be hopped but they have made a huge visible difference from what I’ve seen. Pentagon City has zero teens loitering now. My biggest issue is Gallery Place. It’s unacceptable IMO including within the metro entrances.
The bus fare boxes need to be fixed. Though, I’m not that bothered by it lol. Buses are mostly nice. I’ve also ridden the circulator and FFX Connector more than WMATA metro bus which aren’t captured by that tool.
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