People are at crowded bus stops because they have places they must go and have no other practical choices for transportation. It doesn't have to be this way if our governments made sure these folks didn't need to travel and/or if #WMATA ran more buses.
What do we expect people who still need to go to work, or still need to get groceries, to do? What power do they in themselves have to forgo those obligations? Simply asking people to stay home isn't enough. Assume those on the street have good intentions until proven otherwise.
The individual blame game is convenient, because it doesn't require us to look at our present situation and think about the unresolved systemic issues that are actually causing much of the individual behavior we don't approve of, but that doesn't make it right.
TNCs (Uber, Lyft, etc.) have always been cost-prohibitive options for many who rely on services like Metrobus, but perhaps now more than ever given you can't/shouldn't book a pooled ride. #wmata
