Silver Lining

Is more transit always better?

The other week I did something I’ve been planning to do for half a year—ride the recently opened extension of the D.C. Metro’s Silver Line all the way to its westernmost station. I met a friend—these things are always better with a wingman—and we rode out to Ashburn, in Loudoun County.

The Metrorail system, Washington, D.C.’s subway/commuter train system…