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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
when i lived in DC i was a metro-only person. walk to metro, shuttle bus to school. then metro to all my city errands-- rarely i would catch a bus transfer for a place out of the way. i had a zipcar membership but i never needed it. i would take cabs at night, say, after drinking till 4am. a few times i rented a car to get out of town, always got good deals. i used my bike a lot too, but dc drivers are aware of bicycles in a way that drivers in other towns aren't-- in albuquerque people get run over a lot. and walking was a pleasure, always something to see on the way. some people bitch about the lack of freeways inside dc but it's a blessing.
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that sounds like paradise compared to LA, as I said, our city is simply overwhelming in size..
for example, when I took the MTA green/Blue line and a few connecting buses to church yesterday, it was the same distance as traveling from DC across to Baltimore!!!