Nah.... don't go changing your apathetic ways on me just after I decided to be like you!! I'm now looking at the homeless, littering, and shelter animals "from a purely rational perspective" .... like you. You said, if something "is comparatively no big deal compared to the other things we don't care about." that we are "technically correct" not to care. With the war in Ukraine, climate change, national debt, etc., then we're right not to be concerned about things like the homeless. Thank you for this new way of looking at the world and for defending me for not caring.

Potomac Ave literally just had a shooting a month ago.

So yeah my dude count yourself lucky. Getting more wild to ride every day.

Cars are dangerous but that doesn’t take away from the absolute fact that Metro is getting worse in regard to safety. People are going to feel that, and decide to take an Uber / Lyft / etc instead when they can, or use their personal vehicles if they have one.

DC needs to up its police presence inside Metro stations and keep public transit safe to ride.

> DC region

Isn’t DC. Your link even proves me right. Check the chart.

https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/traffic-data

First of all, the only "care" shown to the homeless on this site or most media around DC is to complain about them. And unlike metro shootings, there's lots of homeless in DC, it's an actual ongoing disaster affecting thousands of people on a daily basis.

But instead of being concerned about that, this sub is all about making sure everyone is aware of every criminal incident that occurs in a 10 mile radius.

Well I've been in 1 serious car accident and have personally witnessed 3 other separate car accidents that had people carted off in ambulances afterward.

Can't say I've ever witness a shooting on the metro. But maybe that's just me.

313 people were killed on local roads in the DC region in 2022. And 0 people were killed in the incident referred to in the post.

The fact this your comment is upvoted 7 times (probably because no one recognizes that it's off by an order of magnitude) in response to my -34 comment is proof that people, and probably r/washingtondc redditors in particular, have an extremely inaccurate understanding of the relative risks of driving vs. the metro.

I’m pretty sure people having their own experiences of filth and creep on the Metro makes people wary of the Metro.

But you believe what you want, my dude.

On the contrary, the fact that people find driving less dangerous despite the fact that it's objectively far more dangerous is proof that their is not a direct relation between actual violence and how safe people find something.

What does make people feel unsafe on the metro and drive is redditors flipping out about every time a crime occurs anywhere on the metro.

I never regret quitting the metro

Exactly

Public transit already has the problem where it's slower than a car... Having crazy security checks will only be a higher barrier to ridership.

I got down voted to high heaven for suggesting folks should have stepped up to help a woman who posted about getting harassed on the Metro or at least alerted the police and/or the station manager.... something! But nope.... no one helped her I'm so sorry I watched you get harassed.... I would have helped, but then what about me?! Pathetic.....

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The soul train

God forbid you be so inconvenienced

I was talking about this this weekend, sometimes it's not worth intervening because the crazies legit might shoot you.

More of this!!

Using your "logic", we can also not care about the homeless, children's hunger, and shelter animals....wow.... This is great advice....apathy absolves us of any worries!! I'm off to dump my used oil in the Chesapeake Bay!!!

> guests who were stopped simply had to take their items to a nearby security Cast Member who was able to perform a targeted inspection

Oh boy, I can't wait to miss trains for this and to cost metro tens of millions of dollars to hire hundreds of security screeners for nearly 100 stations.

A look at how well DC does in prosecuting those who dont follow guns laws we have now is below.

Includes felons with guns with obliterated serial numbers…

Think we need more laws?

https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/y1gvzn/us_attorney_office_answer_to_why_dc_firearm/irxvdbv/

"unproven tech"

https://blogmickey.com/2020/07/massive-changes-coming-to-disney-world-theme-park-bag-check-experience/

yep, so unproven that they also deployed it at Disneyland

https://wdwnt.com/2021/08/photos-contactless-security-scanners-arrive-at-disneyland-parking-structure/

so unproven even local schools are using it

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/virginia/osbourn-high-school-installing-new-weapons-detector-security-screening-school-safety/65-102b91e4-b31c-4252-a52b-df57e8927906

They are NOT up that early!

Horseplay

Green line has notoriously been known as the worst since my childhood

Why are we this mad at 7:30 in the morning??