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Originally Posted by Spade
Actually DC has high public ridership. Very high. It's just that there are not many roads in the area for 5.4 million people. They did not think that this area would get this big. But the DC metro system is very high in ridership numbers. I contribute to it everyday.
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I'd agree with this. The one thing I've always felt about the DC side of the Balt/Wash metro area is that the freeways (uh, I mean expressways
) leading into Washington's core aren't well designed, Plus, you don't really have a reliable, straightforward N-S corridor. The northern roads all seem to kind of arc around the core and let traffic off on secondary thru ways.
And the Beltway is awful. Yuck!
Oh, and another problem is that on some highways (like I-66 in Virginia), the lanes merge when you'd think they'd be expanding. I experienced this heading east from Reston going inside the Beltway. I was shocked.
At least the scenery is nice to look at while you're sitting still.