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Originally Posted by highaltitudepkr
I'm moving to Arlington in November so I've scrolled through a lot of this thread to check out what people have to say about MGMNH. Definitely happy to see Johnny actively engaging with everyone, you can tell he really wants this room to have long term success.
One of the major questions I have is in regards to transit (I wont have a car when I move out initially). I'll be living near the Virginia Square-GMU station, so a connection at Rosslyn and a bus across the river from King Street can get me there in about an hour. It's about twice the time as driving, but I'm used to public transit so that doesn't bother me.
Does anyone with Metro experience think it would be plausible to rely on this route? Or would it be more effective to just take an Uber daily?
Also, I've never lived in the DMV. Anyone have advice?
I've taken the metro every day for work since ~2013. I used to live off the Courthouse stop and took the train in every day for 3 years. Your biggest problem is going to be that trains and buses start to run pretty infrequently during non-rush hour times and on the weekends.
The variance on your trip time is going to be huge. If you have little wait for Orange, Blue and bus you can definitely do it in 45-60 minutes. What is going to kill you is when you have a 15 minute wait for the Orange, 20 minute wait for the Blue and 20 minute wait for the bus. Then your trip can easily get to 90+ minutes.
Trains also stop running ~11:45pm so you are likely going to need to Uber home a lot of the time.
Your best bet is probably going to be Ubering (pool if you want to be cheap) and avoiding rush hour.