Nice! Any fun facts or anecdotes you'd like to share given you're this subreddit's resident Metro expert?

> 51% of U.S. employees making at least a $100,000 per year reported living paycheck-to-paycheck in December 2022 

This stat might mean something if it didn't realistically include people who say things like "y'know, after paying my bills, maxing out my 401k, backdooring my Roth, investing in my kid's 529, the stock market in general, and then paying the mortgage and car payments... there really isn't much left." Most poor people wouldn't consider the kind of "paycheck to paycheck" that a higher income person describes as anything resembling that.

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I’ll be the first to say that DC street parking signs are often contradictory and/or entirely illogical, but considering that meter parking is free on Sundays, you must’ve been parked in a strict no-parking area for them to have ticketed you (and twenty others)

I had a different experience. Rode my e bike N from Mt. Vernon area - larger than usual number of people on the Mt. Vernon Trail, but not really any unusual behavior, the usual inattention, but most people behaving as one does on a multi-use path. That was true all along the way. Memorial bridge had a few more clueless than usual, but not much more than peak tourist, and better behaved than peak tourist. Parked at the kit festival, only moderate confusion, and all were polite enough. Even law enforcement acting rational. Rode up Constitution, nobody cared that I lane split. A few more oblivious peds than usual, but I'm careful. Parked by Natural History and played with dinosaurs. Nobody screwed with my bike, security let me in without a search. Then across the mall, down L'Enfant towards the Wharf - cars parked in the bike lane. I laughed, figure they all got tickets. Crossed over to East Potomac, a few unaccustomed to bikes and walking rationally, but not many, and we worked it out. Park Police dude said the point was looking good and traffic blocked, so I rode around the loop. Took some off roading, but easy and fun. The my girl is cute and needs pictures, instagram, and gotta fish people were there. Some cool bicycles. Then across 14th st bridge - that was the most zooish, but everyone behaved, and the police had just arrived to handle the parking on the ridge. Laughed about that with some folks. Then back home. Pretty easy, over all, considering the thousands of people. Having the cars immobile actually made it easier!!

Overall, one of the more entertaining trips of late. And I have to wonder about the intelligence of anyone trying to get in using anything but a bike or feet.

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Tons of neighborhoods and parks have cherry blossom trees. I don't understand the need to travel to see them but I can see now why someone would want to go to the Tidal Basin and be at the surrounding events.

the dc ones are a gift from Japan, others in other cities were bought and gifted by rich americans who wanted them

They need to add weekend service to and from Harper’s Ferry, even if it’s just one round trip a day

I see. I guess I've just seen a difference between how D.C and other cities treat their cherry blossoms and I was curious if there was an added significance in D.C.

I don't think New Orlean sports teams have Ash Wednesday jerseys or an Ash Wednesday half marathon lol. But I see: tourism. I was just wondering if there was added significance coming to D.C to see the cherry blossoms rather than your local park, which likely has them too.

I guess it's a thing for some people, not a thing for others. I just haven't seen other cities make as big a deal of it as DC does. So I was curious if I was missing something.

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I'm seeing that it's all of the events that are also built around the cherry blossoms.

Stump Daddy!

Sounds like they create a lot of events around it too.

Ok, I think I can see this.

Pearls, I Egg You, Tatte, Meats and Foods, Astro Doughnuts, Cracked Eggery, Yellow, Roaming Rooster, Pluma

They’re pretty, here for a short time, concentrated in a big tourist area, and they’re out when the weather is nice. Not complicated.

Congrats!

Hate Xfinity! FIOS is available a few blocks from me in both directions, but for some reason, it's not in my building.

They’re pretty and you don’t see them very often

Man that’s wild, because I just got to work on time and without being stabbed!

The Penn line (DC to Baltimore Penn) hits 125mph at times.

And tbh the trains on the Penn line are pretty frequent – between that and Amtrak you can get between DC and Baltimore throughout the day with no issue.

The Camden and Brunswick lines are basically only commuter services though, which sucks.

They announced a plan to repair/redesign the Tidal Basin last year though it seems to be a pretty major project since it's addressing the failing seawall, so it'll probably be a couple years before we see the results.