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This seems disingenuous at best. Why are you commenting on HN when you could be out helping these homeless anyway? Is your time, happiness, etc, really worth mo

• Karrot_Kream 8y ago
  That's not what GP is saying. GP says that public transit is transit with your neighbors. If your neighbors are smelly junkies, then something is wrong with your community. Shoving people into cars to avoid the homeless is orthogonal to solving crowding issues. This issue only comes up in SF because of the large wealth disparity between the upper-middle class and everyone below them. Here, the upper-middle pays for the option to remove themselves from public services.
  • mrhappyunhappy 8y ago
    Oh please the issue comes up in a bunch of other places other than SF. LA, Chicago, DC, Portland, all have the same issues. I am not rich nor am I poor but I avoid public transit for the reason mentioned above. I don’t know that it will ever get better seeing as how the country is falling apart with an ever widening income gap.
    • empath75 8y ago
      I take the dc metro all the time and it doesn’t have any of those problems. The single tracking and random fires have been the issues here.