Yes! This. 🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤗

1. When sitting on the inside seat and you have to get off, gently tap or make eye contact with the person sitting next to you and say "please excuse me. I am getting off at the next stop, thank you."

It is a total asshole move to simply stand up or give a demanding energy glare for them to get up for you.

2. Also, if you are healthy enough with no mobility, knee or back issues offer your seat up on a crowded bus/ train to the elderly, pregnant, or physically struggling.

3. If someone is already sitting in a two seater space with their child, ask the parent if your child can share the space with them. I think it is so rude to make assumptions and decisively invade people's personal space by inserting your kid between them.

4. Be aware of your surroundings when you walk on the platform by not making sudden stops. If you need to organize yourself pull over to a well lite corner or bench.

5. If there is a problem on the train. De- esculate the issue as soon as possible by getting to a safe place and hitting the call center button on the next train car to report the incident to the operator or get off and report it to the station manager.

6. If you or anyone falls/ gets hurt, or has a complaint write down the bus number, time, and approximate location and call (202) 637-7000. Thanks. 😊

Thank you for this post. We could all use a good dose of positivity. I find DC history interesting. I have always taken pride in the fact that DC is diverse and most people here value education and culture. I love the free museums, free festivals, and variety of great restaurants. Metro is clean and you can walk to anywhere in DC.

That is terrible! You must have been terrified. There needs to be a comprehensive, universal "share the road" television ad campaign that outlines the rules of the road for motorists, pedestrians, and cyclists that runs ads just as frequently as those annoying political campaign ads.

Drivers zone out, are constantly rushing, and bypass stop signs, pedestrians are distracted by their phones and zone out at walk signs and then start crossing when they feel like it but not necessarily when it is safe or their turn to do so, and cyclists rarely use hand signals and/or consider that they hold up traffic pedaling in the middle of the road ( like their legs can compete with the horse power of an engine)??? If you are new to driving or don't know where you are going you are teased or harrassed by more experienced drivers. It is a complete mess.

It seems to boil down to people being selfish and always in a rush in a "no waiting" culture. People have become completely intolerant and inconsiderate of others. They have a possessive, selfish, "me first and always" mentality on the road, and they do not want to communicate and abuse those who do. For instance when one puts a signal on that is now a cue for the drivers behind to speed up instead of yielding and accommodating the request. Modern religion and community obligation is ineffective so there is no morale compass to appeal to the consciousness of people anymore. People do whatever they please and what feels good to them without any regard for how it affects others because that would be inconvenient and interfere with their own desires.