The Washington Post recently trumpeted an innovative new way that D.C. area residents are getting to work: taking the bus! It’s just the contrarian, old-is-the-new-hip take that’s bound to make the kids start buying morning newspapers again; never mind the fact that bus trips are down 12 percent in the last year.

Like much of the dreck that’s in the paper these days, there’s a little bit of truth wrapped up in its banal perspective—taking the bus probably does work for more people these days, especially given Metro’s troubles over the last year, and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) could do more to help people use it.