Public tash cans in general. I know the way NYC handles trash is unique to them among American cities. But every time I travel to a different American city, especially on the west coast, I'm always annoyed at the lack of public trash cans. Portland Oregon and San Francisco are particularly bad at this. I wouldn't be shocked if their reputations for being dirty was directly tied to this. In DC/Silver Spring/Alexandria/Arlington etc, the commercial districts and major roads have public trash cans basically on every block, on both sides of the block, and on every bus stop. I always notice it when I travel to a different city and I have trash and I go to where I expect a trash can to be but nothing.

I was in Portland recently and had a candy wrapper I wanted to throw away. I was on a major commerical street, and I had to walk so many blocks to find a single public can, and even then, I had to cross the street to use it

Some people on this sub are delusional or have bad intentions to make crime seem out of control. Reality is DC is still a very safe large city

Crime is up nationwide since the pandemic. Nothing is DC specific, and the people naysaying that crime is worse than the 90s are absolutely delusional or more likely they are republicans who want to spread online the idea that cities are dangerous and dirty

But Samsung folables are waterproof

Not sure anyone else mentioned it but the road is being reconfigured DC. The lanes that end in concrete islands are going to be the future parking lanes. The current parking lane will be a protected bike lane. No clue why it takes so long to reconfigure a road or why they left dead end lanes open like this

It will absolutely use smarttrip. Every single county run bus network in the DC area accepts smarttrip. The Baltimore rail and bus network (charmcard territory) is compatible with smartcard. Ideally it would be free to ride to simplify transfers with metro but realistically it will be the same process as getting off the metro and using a county run bus

Dulles! Wow. The only time I've ever driven someone to Dulles, they upfront offered to pay me what it would've cost them to uber because they would rather pay a friend than a stranger. If someone asked me to drive them to Dulles for free or a lowball offer, I'd tell them to take the train or get a flight out of DCA

Hardly. My friends sometimes ask me for rides that are inconvenient for me. I say no, it's inconvenient because I have to drive x amount of time and then x amount of time back. Explaining that the ride doesn't end when they are dropped off is an easy way to politely show why you are saying no

My personal rule is simple. I never ask for gas money for local trips. But I only offer trips to where I am already going. So my friends get to enjoy the convenience of a free trip and I never go out of my way as a free uber. How far out of your way you are willing to go to pick someone up is up to you but generally (not that it's codified) I'll go up to 10 minutes out of the way to pick someone up.

What often happens is I'll end up dropping off (or picking up) people along the way at a metro stop