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I take the light rail and bus a bit just because driving through a major city is cancer aids. Takes way longer to get anywhere, I see the bus driver fist fight drunk passengers kinda often, and got a knife pulled on me twice on the rail. None of that happens when I drive places myself.
I'll be down to clown on cars with y'all, but the people who currently take public transit need to be dealt with first. Done getting robbed because I decided to take the rail home from a baseball game instead of drive.
that's a problem with the city and not with public transit. there are many cities where public transit is safe, it always depends on the general safety of the city
Doesn't make any functional difference to me as a rider, a normal person who uses the rail and bus. Problems I have with the people on the bus means problems I have with the bus. The people need fixed if you want me supporting public transport.
Yeah, I regularly take public transport around London and none of that happens to me. Seems like more of a cultural issue than a public transport one.
There was a woman who would beg for money on the last stretch of my commute home. Either she was on the bus or she must have been coming back from the other end of the line.
Every now and then she would start shrieking. Once she started she just... Didn't stop. She would walk the length of the bus shrieking directly in people's faces. This happened about a dozen times before I just started getting off the bus if I saw her. I would rather walk 30 minutes then have to put up with her.
I'm my country the transit system won't ban anyone because it is considered excessive punishment for the extremely poor.
As a result, transit just sucks for everyone.
Behavior that is anti-social should be unacceptable. We're so afraid of placing limits on anyone that the most unstable/unwell place limits on the rest of us.
In the case of the woman I mentioned, she's also a victim. There's no proper support for her. She needs help too.
That's illegal in Denmark, i have seen people do this kind of things sometimes and everytime they are kicked off the transport at next stop. And then they jump on at the next transport and kicked off again, this behavior have forced the public transport in the big cities to have guards on board the trains all the times.
It's not fair to her, banshees should also be able to take the bus.
Yeah US public transport has issues. I want to be a train/bus/bike person and I am in Europe and Asia but can't do it in most of the US.
Honestly, these days I feel like it’s hard to claim that driving is “safer”. It feels safer enclosed in your metal box, except for all the other high speed low-intelligence high-rage boxes driving around near you.
I can also respect the frustration of finding crazies on public transit, and won’t try to spin that as a positive - but to me, it speaks towards visibility of the world around you, and willingness to exist in it and change society when it’s broken. It’s like the lords in their manors that “cannot fathom consorting with all that plebeian filth”.
I’m biased. I’m a tall guy, and I’ve had an incident having to stare down a homeless guy that was spewing Asian hate to a poor Korean guy on the train. I’ll keep taking those trains, claim them for the reasonable people.