They were right about Virginia's commuter system. It is the worst I've ever experienced, much worse than Seattle, San Jose, San Francisco, Pittsburg or any other place I've been with "bad traffic."
Here's the run down. We left at 12:20pm to take a twenty minute drive to the Metro. We hit stop and go traffic and what was a twenty minute drive ended up being a forty five minute drive. We got to the metro and found parking in a lot that was "declared full." If it was "full", why were there four empty spaces in the lot? We went down to catch a metro; we had already missed the 12:47 train. So we waited in the metrorail that was there. And waited. And waited. It turned out that the train had mechanical malfunctions and we had to wait for the next orange line.
So we caught the next one. And spent $3.55 each on the trip. To arrive just in time for the show. After the show, we took another rail. $3.55 each again. That means we spent $14.20 on transit. Hardly cheaper than gas. However, we weren't finished. We tried to leave the parking lot, expecting an attendant; we were wrong. Instead, we had to go back inside, pay $10 bucks more for a card we are only going to use once; $5 allocated to parking and $5 dedicated to metro fares. These are non-negotiable distributions. So we spent $3.75 on parking and the other $6.25 is wasted money that the metro system stole from us.
Bad? How about the almost two hour drive home; which is only roughly 15-20 miles. That's what I call quality traffic time. I thought that San Jose was worse. I was wrong.
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