Reagan’s sketch of Hinkley’s butt plug via vintage H st Walmart Time Machine.

Moving walkways are OP.

I remember being in highschool over 20 years ago now when they first started doing the planning and excited I'd be able to take the Metro to Dulles "soon". When I look at other various projects being considered around the area I figure I'll be retired before they come to any type of fruition.

Most of Loudoun's busses stop running at 7pm so...ya. It's also stupidly difficult to get to the new Loudoun Metro stations unless you wanna go during normal commuting times.

Call them and complain. They might come down, especially if you are nice to the rep.

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Southern congressman dogwhistling, what else is new?

As an aside, it's a humorous bit of logic to say that DC schools are crime factories because of chronic absenteeism. Wouldn't that mean that schools are the opposite of crime factories?

Have you ever worked? The BID needs extra hands and it pays for them, otherwise who, in your wise opinion, should pay the money?

The first advice I'll give is that I haven't met anyone that calls it Nooga (just like in Atlanta no one actually called it Hotlanta haha). We say the full name or just Chat. Funny you're considering a move here because I'm considering a move to Alexandria in mid-2024.

I like Chattanooga though, lower cost of living, lots of natural beauty, big enough to still have some fun stuff but more quiet/calm than a huge city. Lots of places to hike and climb and also two lakes. Internet here (in city limits) is world class, being cheaper, faster, and more reliable than my ISP in Atlanta. Being only ~2 hours from Atlanta and Nashville is also super nice.

For insider tips I'd probably need to know more of your specifics, like what are you hoping to get moving here, or what do you dislike about the DMV area that you're hoping to minimize here. For example, with Chat right on the TN-GA border, most people live in the TN side because we have no income tax and most the jobs are on the TN side, but if you have kids you might want to pay the 5%-6% income tax on the GA side since I hear the schools are better there. If you also don't have a lot of income to tax and want cheaper housing, GA would also be better.

You can also check out r/Chattanooga, although I'd recommend searching for older posts instead of making your own; the people on the subreddit seem pretty anti-transplant, blaming us for all their housing and traffic woes. They also over hype how bad the traffic is; it's probably worse than a similar size city due to all the natural bottlenecks (mountains, tunnels, rivers), but compared to Atlanta or the DMV it's really good.

DC will never get statehood. It is not worth it to members of congress even Democrats and has been shown for almost 200 years now. There have been ample times when full control of congress and the presidency existed and it has never gotten close to happening.

The primary argument for statehood is lack of voting rights.

Retrocession to Maryland accomplishes that goal, as Arlington County did.

The most common counter argument to retrocession is DC is its own place and not Maryland. Philly is just as different from parts of PA but it is part of PA. DC is territory that MD gave away, Georgetown was part of the Maryland colony.

DC politicians would rather their citizens have no voting rights in congress than have to share power with the MD population and have less extreme laws.

MD politicians in Baltimore do not want to give up more power to DC and its wealthy suburbs.

So DC will have no voting rights and be able to be overridden by congress, used to score political points because the bulk of congress doesn't care about 600k people in a counter of more than 300 million.

If you are serious about democracy and want congress to not have a choice then retrosession is the only viable path, DC only has to really convince MD, not the majority of the US for that path and MD does care about DC in the end after all it used to be MD.

That he shoots in the back while intoxicated *fify

I mostly agree with this…though metro center and gallery place can get to that nyc level.

Haha very funny generic joke making fun of a non-major sport. Maybe you can yell "Run Forest, Run!" too. The men's and women's 10 mile US record has been set multiple times at this event. It's a human achievement that is far greater than any of us will achieve but sure go ahead and dismiss it because you have to take a 15 minute detour around a park.

That's what bothers me about this article.

It’s fucking insane to me. I saw a hop in IRL, 2 black teenagers stole an elderly black lady’s car and I was talking to the cops. The lady was like “you saw them right? Two black teenagers right?! Of course it was! Ugh!!!!” Like bro it’s just an identifier. Saying someone is black, Asian, Hispanic, white, in itself isn’t racist. It’s so annoying!!

For sure, don't disagree, just saying Metro is WAY cleaner

Mine too. I've been to 3 offices in the past month.

You wait in those stations for at most 1-2 minutes though. The sheer number of trains running is a game changer and makes getting around up there a lot easier than in DC

Oh no poor drivers!! The HUMANITY!!!!

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If that's the officer that shot the guy at the Wharf, I guess it depends on how many more violent fellons whip out a gun in public and point it at someone while he's around.

It’s because people on this subreddit are sensitive, they are terrified of potentially being called a racist. It’s incredibly stupid… they’ll go on and on without providing a description of the suspect/harasser/perpetrator.

Not coming from a position of strength there, Representative from motherfucking Alabama.

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Are they being replaced with other solution like you said? Or is the money just being used less efficiently in places that have rich people?

I mean you aren't alone but it shows how petty and myopic people get about things.

I will repeat as I often do: WMATA is a good system. It should be even better but damn we are lucky to have it. I've been to so many world cities and it is ridiculous the comparisons made. There are only a handful of places that really are better, and the population of DC is only 650k, the region is like 6 million. When WMATA was at is peak there were 800k trips on the rail alone... That's more than a trip a person for the population. A system that sucks does not get that kind of use. Even now it hits 300k+ which is still a large fraction. I would guess about 1.5 million live within 2 miles of a station on the rails. Given counties like MoCo have populations of 1 million. The system will get back up to 800k a day in a few years.

People are radically underestimating the purple line also I think, though it will be 4 more years. It is going to be a lot more Red line use in the ends of the system because you skip going downtown and back out, its a big deal. That said there needs to be another alt east-west line closer into the core built as purple doesn't really allow a bypass if they want to shut down the Or-Sv-Bu core line. If they can build another core line and make a grid maintenance will get a lot less painful. If we fund that line today it might be complete in about 2040. I will be quite old... But I hope they build it for all the people who are teens today.