The answer to Saturday’s quiz: Of transit riders who used transit as their primary mode of travel, 87 percent walked to transit. Everyone guessed on the low side, but Greg Sanders came closest. Good job Greg!

Moving on to a different topic: 34% of transit trips were to or from work. But the survey compares metropolitan areas of 500,000 people or more with those under 500,000. Which group had a larger percentage of transit trips being for work, the larger or smaller areas? How big of a gap is there between them?

The answer will likely surprise you.

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David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.