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Hate to say it but homeless people and sketch people have ruined west coast cities mass transit for me. Im uncomfortable like 50% of the time riding San Fran, L
by nerdchum 4y ago
Hate to say it but homeless people and sketch people have ruined west coast cities mass transit for me. Im uncomfortable like 50% of the time riding San Fran, L.A., or San Diego mass transit.
Riding Chicago mass transit is nice because the cold weather eliminates most of the homeless people in one way or another.
One possible solution is a premium model where there are Premium edition trains that you can pay a little extra for and have security and be around normal middle class people and relax and read a book.
I.e. have a capitalist run transit service trains along side the government one.
I'd ride transit a lot more if this was a thing.
I'll stick to my car until west coast mass transit has figured out a way to where I don't have to sit next to a person who has literally peed them selves and looks desperate enough to rob me.
(This doesn't seem to be a high bar)
- lotsoweiners 4y agoThe problem with the premium model is that there likely isn’t going to be someone there enforcing it. The light rail in my city (which is terrible and I don’t plan to ride again) has people getting on without tickets all of the time. Only occasionally will someone show up on the train to enforce tickets and kick the free loaders off.
- mjhay 4y agoPublic transit is safer than driving. You are far more likely to be killed driving your own car than be stabbed on the bus.
- nerdchum 4y agoI don't think I said killed one time. I said 'robbed' and 'sitting next to someone who has peed themselves'. Of which the chance is infinitely higher on mass transit than your own vehicle. Unless you date sketch people then either of those is possible ;)
- bojangleslover 4y agoI'd rather risk death in my own car than live a life of anxiety whenever my wife takes the train
- dionidium 4y agoTransit advocates should take seriously that nobody cares if this is true. The modal American will accept an increase in rare, catastrophic risk to avoid the extreme levels of disorder on American public transit. You're not going to statistics-lecture people out of avoiding intolerable levels of disorder. We evolved a special fear of interpersonal violence and being around unstable strangers makes most people extremely uncomfortable. That's not going away.