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In this town, if you live and work near a Metro, owning a car fulltime is unnecessary. I don't own a car and haven't for three years. I primarily take Metro to work, on rare occasions I will ride my bike and on days where I have to do other tasks (laundry, drycleaning, shopping, etc.) I will rent a car from Hertz local edition (and when I do I rent it for three weekend days as the rate is only $18.00 a day.)
Greg Howard, Alexandria
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Here's a question - does Metro really help? Have we asked the tough questions of our yellow-vested public transit comrades? What kind of pollution are they causing? (Other than being the harbingers of sprawl?) We better keep our collective eye on this Metro - it could be an attempt to profit off of our green consciousness.
Posted by: Jim Eltringham | January 08, 2008 at 10:42 PM