Psychotomy

DC’s Metro differs from most (all) of the others I’ve been on in that the cost is dependent on the distance you ride. Possibly with some additional factors like whether your trip goes through the busy areas or something. But it costs a minimum of 1.65$ for a trip (such as the one station I ride between the train and the office to avoid walking through DC in the freezing cold). It goes up to 3-something.

Anyway, I tend to put 20$ on my metro pass at a time. When it gets down to ~5$, I’ll look for a chance to refill it. The other day going through a stile behind someone, I saw the display saying that their card had 200$+ on it. Wow. But OK, I use ~50 a month I think, and I’m doing minimum fares most of the time, so 100-200$ a month isn’t unreasonable I suppose. Seems like a lot, but 3$ each way, five times a week, four weeks is 120$, so if they have some extra for additional trips etc, maybe some leftover from last month’s allowance b/c of thanksgiving.

Then I saw someone last week who blew my mind. The card had ~2500$ on it. TWO AND A HALF THOUSAND DOLLARS! That’s like 80$ a day, counting weekends. If you add 5$ for parking (I don’t remember if it’s 3 or 5), I swear the max daily still caps at like 11$. Say 15 to be generous (even though weekends don’t have parking fees so it would average down not up). That’s still a bonus 60$ a day! Seriously, W T F!???

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