{"id":4314,"date":"2021-09-19T14:29:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T18:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/?p=4314"},"modified":"2021-09-19T14:29:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T18:29:48","slug":"four-years-of-tracking-my-metro-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/2021\/09\/19\/four-years-of-tracking-my-metro-trips\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Years of Tracking my Metro Trips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Not much has changed, and yet everything has changed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last two years have been… unusual to say the least. With the pandemic, lockdown, and working from home, I overhauled my commute, just like many others. And my Metro data tells the tale: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Four years of Metro Trips, logged<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You can see the exact moment when the world shut down. From mid-March 2020 through Mid-January, 2021, I took a grand total of seven unlinked Metro trips. By mid-march 2021, I had resumed a new commute pattern, mostly for the purposes of daycare drop-off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metro during the pandemic has been different. 92.4% of my trips in 2021 have been on a 7000 series train, and the remainder have been on 3000 series. I haven’t ridden either a 6000 or 2000 series train since the pandemic began. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some trivialities: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • The entire 7000 series fleet is in service, and I snagged a ride on the newest car (Number 7747) on August 17, 2021.<\/li>
  • Of the current fleet, I’ve ridden 1137 of the 1284 cars in service (what counts as “in service” is a bit of a moving target), or 88.6%<\/li>
  • My most frequently ridden car is 7673, which I’ve caught ten times over four years. <\/li>
  • The longest gap between cars I’ve managed is 1,382 days, on car 7111. That’s 3.78 years of the current 4 year timespan. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    With life changes, so to will my commute patterns. The ‘new normal’ remains uncertain for balancing working in the office vs. working at home. My kid is now attending a school within walking distance. I’ve felt comfortable on transit during the pandemic with a mask and with relatively sparse crowds, but the pandemic’s continued impact on travel demand is painfully uncertain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Who knows what the next year will bring? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Not much has changed, and yet everything has changed. The last two years have been… unusual to say the least. With the pandemic, lockdown, and working from home, I overhauled my commute, just like many others. And my Metro data tells the tale: You can see the exact moment when the world shut down. From […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[105,459,474,173],"class_list":["post-4314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-data","tag-metro","tag-transit","tag-wmata"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pHcGQ-17A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4316,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions\/4316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}