OT: I'm planning to visit Washington

[Zonkerbl]

Again, Cherry blossoms first and foremost...assuming they come out this weekend.

Capital Bikeshare!

www.capitalbikeshare.com

[Wes_Tiny_Abe_]

The one you have booked is closer to nightlife, but about ten blocks from the Mall. The other one is right next to the Mall (short walk to the Air and Space Museum), so if doing things on and around the Mall is important, that would probably be more convenient. Washington has a pretty good subway and bus system to get around either way, and is a good walking city if the weather is good and you like to walk.

That pass might be a good buy if you actually plan to do a lot of those things.

Not a good buy at all. That same metro day pass used to cost $5-$6 as recently as 2002 but in 2012 was drastically raised to $14.

See what I mean about the recent trend of overpaying for everything?

Now I am no statistics major but from 1976-2002 the price for a metro day pass went up to only $6 in a span of 26 years but from 2002-2012 the price jumped from $6 all the way up to $14 in a span of just 10 years.

Any way you slice it and dice it that is a RIPOFF plain and simple.

What will the metro day pass cost 10 years from now?

$22?

I will jump over the fare gates before I hand over $14 to Richard Sarles for a day pass.

[pancakes3]

I went to the Frederick Douglass historical site when I was 11. It was fantastic.

Also, day passes are for tourists. Real DC-ers smart card.

[fendilim]

Just arrived in dc. Any good restaurants near dupont circle?

Really liking the idea of,the farmers market in dupont. Until what time do they open?

[Wes_Tiny_Abe_]

In WTA's defense, I think we all wish DC could return to being the murder capital of the country.

Those were the days...

And did you know that there are 22 CVS locations in Baltimore city? What an over-gentrified hellhole that place is.

I think it is hilarious whenever somebody speaks up against the current disgusting yuppification of DC that all of a sudden they are a proponent of the murder capital days.

The reality is during most of the 1980s and early 1990s I would spend most of my spare time in video game arcades, (M Street Georgetown, Ballston Mall) golf driving ranges or I was skateboarding, snowboarding or hanging out at Tower Records, Kemp Mill or Waxie Maxies buying Bananrama & Belinda Carlisle albums.

I was not out committing murders or shootings or advocating violence and I was out and about all over MD, DC and VA on a daily basis.

Your argument about Baltimore having 22 CVS locations means nothing because Baltimore is 80 square miles and Washington DC is only 61 square miles so technically DC has more. Lots more.

[Zonkerbl]

Just arrived in dc. Any good restaurants near dupont circle?

Really liking the idea of,the farmers market in dupont. Until what time do they open?

http://freshfarmmarkets.org/farmers_mar ... circle.php

Sundays, 8:30 am to 1 pm (April through Dec. 2013)

[Wes_Tiny_Abe_]

I went to the Frederick Douglass historical site when I was 11. It was fantastic.

Also, day passes are for tourists. Real DC-ers smart card.

There were no smart cards in the 80s and 90s so me and my friends would buy the day passes.
We were far from being tourists. Very far in fact. 100% natives. All of us.

[Wes_Tiny_Abe_]

Again, Cherry blossoms first and foremost...assuming they come out this weekend.

Capital Bikeshare!

http://www.capitalbikeshare.com

Like Yah!

It is hilarious how all of these disgusting gentrifiers think they are some kind of urban pioneers for riding a bicycle in DC which is something me and all my friends were doing when we were 5 years old.

These disgusting people are straight up comedy.

24/7

365

There is never a dull moment with these yups.

[Zonkerbl]

Dude, now you're just being a jerk. Didn't your momma ever tell you, if you don't have anything nice to say, shut your ignorant ass up?

[Wes_Tiny_Abe_]

Dude, now you're just being a jerk. Didn't your momma ever tell you, if you don't have anything nice to say, shut your ignorant ass up?

No. I am speaking the truth.
I have lots of personal experience with gentrifiers and yups.
More than you or anybody else on this could possibly ever imagine.
I know the demographic better than any other demographic on the planet.

[pancakes3]

I went to the Frederick Douglass historical site when I was 11. It was fantastic.

Also, day passes are for tourists. Real DC-ers smart card.

[Wes_Tiny_Abe_]

I went to the Frederick Douglass historical site when I was 11. It was fantastic.

Also, day passes are for tourists. Real DC-ers smart card.

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