Cub Driver wrote:
Everyone in DC rides the Metro. It is brilliantly designed, fast,
reasonably priced, and safe. I have ridden it from Greenbelt in the
north to Vienna in the southwest, from 7 a.m. to midnight, and I've
never felt a qualm.

There are no cops on the Metro, and no muggers either, and almost no
vagrants. It is rarely crowded. It may well be the best public
transport system in the world.


That is absolutely correct. I was up in the DC area last month and my father
and I used it to ride from Falls Church into the District so we could visit the
Vietnam and Korean War Memorials. Everybody on the Metro looked like they
either worked for the government, a restaurant, or were touring like me. There
were no low lifes, no panhandlers in the stations, no graffiti, no cops and no
bad guys that I noticed. I felt completely at ease.

The only negative was trying to figure out how to work the ticket machines. I'd
learned in the past you *never* want to pay with a $20 bill. They claim the
Metro will send you a refund check within 10 days but it was more like 7 weeks.
Carry ones and fives and you can cover any contingency.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

VE