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"... Studies show that riding trains tends to be 20–30 times safer than driving, and riding buses is as much as 60 times as safe..."
by hochmartinez 3y ago
"... Studies show that riding trains tends to be 20–30 times safer than driving, and riding buses is as much as 60 times as safe..."
- Eumenes 3y agoJust better hope you aren't in there with crazy homeless/drug addicts
- kristo 3y ago[flagged]
- bigyikes 3y agoHow about comfortable?
- Kuinox 3y agoYou can sleep in the train. Can you while driving a car ?
- Eumenes 3y agoDid a decade on public transportation, I'm too old for that shit now. There's nothing wrong with not wanting to be in an open air human zoo several times per day.
- malermeister 3y agoThere isn't. But the fix isn't to isolate yourself from society in a metal box, it's basic empathy and making sure those folks get the help they need and aren't forced into those situations in the first place.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- Eumenes 3y agoI already pay taxes homie, I don't owe anything to violent and self destructive strangers on the subway.
- malermeister 3y ago... and that attitude is why your country is broken beyond repair. If you feel like basic empathy is something you don't "owe" to your fellow humans, how can you hope to ever have a functioning society?
- shrimp_emoji 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_homeless_population https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_... It seems most other countries are as or way more broken as regards caring for our unhoused neighbors.
- malermeister 3y agoIt's almost like there's more than one problem to be solved in American society. People being in that state is an indictment of the US mental health system [0] and the terrible inequality forcing them on the streets [1], not an endorsement of cars, a selfish band-aid that exacerbates the bigger issues. [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1035561/mental-hospital-bed-rate-by-region/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1035561/mental-hospital-... [1]https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002716220981864 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002716220981864
- Eumenes 3y agoWe can thank Reagan for repealing the MHSA
- mordae 3y agoYou should see the public transportation outside US! It's terrible how they are nice and convenient spaces. Must be all the communism.
- swexbe 3y agoNormal countries don't have these issues (to the same extent atleast).
- shrimp_emoji 3y agoBy "normal", do you mean the most affluent Western European nations with heavily-developed public transit systems? Cuz that's exceptional, not normal.