DC transit?

merc wrote: are there subways/trains that run from arlington to DC? how about a park and ride? Or would it just be easier to get a hotel down town dc? do they search your cars at the hotel? is there parking at the hotels?

Don't search your cars, but if you're asking that for the reason I think you are, it's a felony.

The Blue and Orange lines run from Arlington (Blue from Rosalyn and Orange from all the way out in Vienna in through the center of Arlington) Hotels are cheaper on the Yellow line through Alexandria and Crystal City than in Arlington. Also, it's easier to drive into and out of Alexandria/Crystal City.

Where are you trying to go?

metro map

Also, if you really want to make it easy, stay at the Crystal City Marriott and you don't even have to step outside to get to the metro. Big underground network of tunnels with shops, restaurants, even theaters. All interconnected. It's a bit like Seoul in that aspect.

Edited by tallen702 - 13 May 2012 at 10:24pm

I want to know what the car searching is about

Stay in Virginia, and get an all day pass on the metro.

The problem I have with Metro is that every single station is done in that 60's brutalist architectural style. Sorry I couldn't hang out with you this weekend, but have been packing non-stop for the move next weekend.

merc wrote: I kept getting off the train and thinking I left my hard hat someplace.

Hahahahahahhaa! So very true!

There's a Macy's department store down in my current neighborhood which was built around the same time as the DC Metro. Same architectural style of "concrete brutalism" I think it's probably the closest thing to commie architecture that I've ever seen.



I think they deliberately have left the big red star which is Macy's icon off of the building to keep everyone from thinking it's a run-down Soviet embassy.

Whatever school of design thought came up with concrete as a "fashionable" building material needs to be beaten to a bloody pulp.

I think Arlington looks beautiful from the orange line....