These people see themselves as aristocrats. You don't expect them to travel with the commoners? They might have to see or even touch someone below them.

I think many of the people being flown by helicopters would go apoplectic if they had to rub shoulders with the hoi polloi in public transit.

> why don't they just take wmata? The Metrorail is immune to traffic.

“An advanced city is not one where the poor own a car, but one where the rich use public transport.” — Enrique Peñalosa (then-mayor of Bogotá), https://www.ted.com/talks/enrique_penalosa_why_buses_represe...

(Sometimes attributed to differently: “A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.” ― Gustavo Petro)