Kevin Costner's Russian's Rusty: Washington DC Metropolitan Area Thread II

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BWI really sucks, in my experience, and it always took hours to get any checked baggage. (hi DC!)

i don't hate anyone.

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what the hell

fwiw taking a regular greyhound is only $3-5 more than the chinatown bus is, though chinatown bus is likely to let you haggle if it is not peak travel time.

tho oddly due to insanity of dc the chinatown bus drops you off in a more convenient location than the greyhound does unlike anywhere else in the world so this is pointless advice unless you are taking the bus OUT of dc.

also: it's relatively easy and not terribly expensive to get to dc from bwi using the train (unlike dulles which is just like in another country i think?), but horseshoe 100% correct on the baggage situation. obviously if you can use REAGAN lol it is the bestest option of all.

reagan national is the best because it was a gift of swedish-american hero grover norquist. appropriately, the airport is situated adjacent to the yellow and blue lines of whamata's metrorail system, and is accented by pleasing yellow tones. we should thank god that mr. norquist saved us from the great big red and blue bush national airport sought by famous norwegian-american rival karl christian rove.

National rules. Except when you are landing from the Northwest and are hungover. Then, it really, really, really, really, really sucks.

also: it's relatively easy and not terribly expensive to get to dc from bwi using the train (unlike dulles which is just like in another country i think?)

Easy, take the Washington Flyer from Dulles to West Falls Church Metro ($9), hop right on the Orange Line.

national also looks like an 8 year old's idea of the future, just like much of dc.

phil, that takes literally hours. whereas the theoretical train situation from bwi would not take that long, though the obvious problem of whether or not the shuttle is actually running anything resembling the schedule they claim is thrown in there.

B.L.A.M. O.T.M.

I have no idea what or where reagan airport is.

ie its doable but i wouldn't recommend it unless it was your only option and you had a lot of time to kill. it's also cheaper to get a cab from bwi than it is from dulles BUT BUT BUT warningwarningwarning bwi now has its own taxi service which SUCKS and none of the drivers have any fucking clue where they are going (even if it is a place that, you know, maryland taxi drivers should know where it is, like DOWNTOWN SILVER SPRING)

soooo actually i'm going to say that bwi is somehow managing to make itself worse and worse, i had forgotten about the semi-new cab situation.

in closing, forget it, bwi has become as bad as dulles.

Yes, see, all your options actually involved going to fucking bwi. National really is the best option. Shit, I lived in Fairfax for six years and still preferred National.

also: it's relatively easy and not terribly expensive to get to dc from bwi using the train (unlike dulles which is just like in another country i think?)

Easy, take the Washington Flyer from Dulles to West Falls Church Metro ($9), hop right on the Orange Line.

-- Phil D., Thursday, July 26, 2007 3:58 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

or you could ride the $3 dulles metrobus from WFC or rosslyn u bourgie fuks

also there is a greenbelt -> BWI $3 metrobus too

(u bourgie fuks)

again, some of us do not have 7 hours to kill once we get out of an airport!

man the bwi taxi service really pissed me off last time i came thru bwi like last month or so. christ.

i was going from bwi to dupont circle at like 11pm and it somehow took nearly two hours and we ended up at the convention center???

dude those buses come every half-hour WINK WINK and they take like 15 mins to get there UBF

If you want a real adventure take TEH FAIRFAX CONNECTOR.

then the time before that i was piggy-backing onto my boss's taxi, he lives in downtown silver spring so i was going to just get off and take the metro and like the driver was completely mystified by even the concept of a town called silver spring. it's like 20 minutes away from bwi!!

lol @ wink wink also lol @ bus + metro at a lot of times pplz would be coming in at airport :\

Last time I flew out of dulles I took the metro to west falls church and did the Dulles Flyer shuttle. Took a while but worked fine. On the way back I took a cab back from West Falls Church metro after the Flyer dropped me off, since I had mad luggage and would have had to take a cab from foggy bottom anyway. The cab was only $16! Awesome.

Or you could take the 69 bus, there are probably girls on it and you could have a crush.

SORRY NONE OF OUR ROUTES RUN IN THE SNOW KTHXBYE

fly girls be busin

the last time i came in on amtrak i had the bright idea to rush and take the last metro out of union station instead of taking a cab. LOL UR DOIN IT WRONG! never again, we must've sat at metrocenter for forty-five minutes waiting for a delayed orange line train to connect with us. i wanted to get out but got into that mindfuck of "the second i get out this train will close doors and leave, just watch" and ended up just having a panic attack over the dilemma.

my least favorite DC transporation quirk is coming into union station on a late night amtrak. You have to get to the front of the train and then dash through union station to get one of the 5 available cabs for 200 people unless you want to wait for the better part of an hour.

then they try to fit as many people (with luggage!) as possible in their cabs and get REALLY angry when you tell them you're going to the opposite end of zone 1.

oh god the trying to fit random strangers into a cab with you--holy christ. if they're going to take you out of your way to go drop off some random person who lives "near you", they could at least cut y'all breaks on the fucking cab fare instead of charging full price. i've also had one of the cab drivers try to charge the extra $1.50 fee for extra passengers one time despite the fact that i had no fucking idea who this extra passenger was and it was his decision to take this person on!! what the hell?

fuck cab drivers who already have other passengers and stop and try to pick you up and by the time you tell them "F U i will take a different cab u lamerz" an empty cab has already driven by.

(yeah, 69, I know. take the bus.)

Or call and hire a car service. Seriously. No wait, no fuss, car all to yourself.

This may be precluded by budgetary concerns.

dude brian this is why you don't even attempt to say "F U i will take a different cab" you just pretend the already-taken cab is kryptonite.

oh, I usually yell at the people who are already in the cab like it's their fault.

hahaha it is their fault, they should say something to the cab driver to prevent this lunacy

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wow

TONIGHT IN URBANLANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNND

guise i am a broek student who is going into debt by even going to this wedding ----> i don't ride in cabs, i take the bus UBF

thanks for the advice, though!

then yeah, straight up cheapest way from Dulles to DC is the 69-approved WMATA bus for $3.

http://www.wmata.com/timetables/dc/5a.pdf

yeah bro yeah

I love the idea of that bus but come on WMATA L'Enfant Plaza and Rosslyn FOR SERIOUS?

gerrymandered partyairplanebus line

this could also work:

http://ridetheboomerang.com/

an intern at my work has ridden that party bus like three times while he's been in town this summer - his plans tonight involve the rock and roll hotel

:/ i would make mine involve r&r hotel too.

my plans tonight involve drugs of varying levels of legality, playing records at neighbor-offending volumes, and quite probably burritos from picante.

ooh picante!

burritos, drugs, and rock & roll

i staggered into picante last night on my way back from jenny's bar-taking celebration. somehow me, dan, and his friend wound up closing the bar. having picante 2 blocks away is probably what i will miss most about this neighborhood.

HEY DC how do I shot high speed internet that doesn't cost $40/month? I don't want cable or a land line

is this possible