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Turning red is accurate /verified. The only place I’ve personally witnessed wide spread mass transit use for youth in school is Japan. Totally normal and feel

Turning red is accurate /verified. The only place I’ve personally witnessed wide spread mass transit use for youth in school is Japan. Totally normal and feels safe.

ryder9 3y ago
yeah.. definitely no mass female groping problems.. hell even guys are being groped nowadays from what ive been told
- vacuity 3y ago
  While that is unfortunate, it's not an argument against mass transit in general.
  - sneak 3y ago
    It's an argument against school-aged children riding mass transit unsupervised.
    - vacuity 3y ago
      Seems like a fixable problem.
    - olyjohn 3y ago
      We know it's an argument, it's just not a very good one.
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nordsieck 3y ago
> The only place I’ve personally witnessed wide spread mass transit use for youth in school is Japan. Kids have been able to ride the busses around Seattle for free for many years now (and before that, during the summer for free). It's worked out pretty well. Or at least the program as continued, and I've seen a lot of kids using the city busses. Definitely a better system than yellow school busses.
- dan_quixote 3y ago
  And it's normal to see young kids walk to school unattended in Seattle. I live near an elementary school and see it every day. Totally unusual in much of the rest of the US.
distortionfield 3y ago
Germany, too. Very common to see very young children riding the U Bahn or S Bahn alone.
- sidewndr46 3y ago
  I remember being on a train in the Bavarian countryside and was puzzled when at one stop it was suddenly filled with 10-13 year olds. Then I realized the time made about sense for school to let out. They got off at the next few stops
  - derefr 3y ago
    This happens fairly frequently in Vancouver Canada, although it's not from regular school commuting (we do have special school busses), but rather from daycamps that find public transit to be the best solution vs. renting a private bus; but also — perhaps surprisingly — school field trips, which seem to often find "just get on a city bus" simpler to arrange than getting the public schoolbus system(?) to get drivers to work a special spot shift hauling kids to who-knows-where.
    - sidewndr46 3y ago
      Interesting, where I grew up school children could not use public transport (while at school at least). We had our own bus system (which was superior to the public transport) and sometimes used private for-hire buses.
sunflowerfly 3y ago
I have seen a few young kids in school uniforms on the tube in London. Most, but not all, seem to have a chaperone. Two or three young kids traveling together is not unusual. We only noticed it because it is becoming unusual to see kids walking to school even here in rural America. They all get dropped off until they are old enough to drive (14/15 here). It probably does not help that community schools are getting replaced with massive schools on the outskirts (where large parcels of land are still available) of town.

Turning red is accurate /verified. The only place I’ve personally witnessed wide spread mass transit use for youth in school is Japan. Totally normal and feels safe.

ryder9 3y ago

yeah.. definitely no mass female groping problems.. hell even guys are being groped nowadays from what ive been told

vacuity 3y ago
While that is unfortunate, it's not an argument against mass transit in general.
- sneak 3y ago
  It's an argument against school-aged children riding mass transit unsupervised.
  - vacuity 3y ago
    Seems like a fixable problem.
  - olyjohn 3y ago
    We know it's an argument, it's just not a very good one.
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nordsieck 3y ago

> The only place I’ve personally witnessed wide spread mass transit use for youth in school is Japan. Kids have been able to ride the busses around Seattle for free for many years now (and before that, during the summer for free). It's worked out pretty well. Or at least the program as continued, and I've seen a lot of kids using the city busses. Definitely a better system than yellow school busses.

dan_quixote 3y ago
And it's normal to see young kids walk to school unattended in Seattle. I live near an elementary school and see it every day. Totally unusual in much of the rest of the US.

distortionfield 3y ago

Germany, too. Very common to see very young children riding the U Bahn or S Bahn alone.

sidewndr46 3y ago
I remember being on a train in the Bavarian countryside and was puzzled when at one stop it was suddenly filled with 10-13 year olds. Then I realized the time made about sense for school to let out. They got off at the next few stops
- derefr 3y ago
  This happens fairly frequently in Vancouver Canada, although it's not from regular school commuting (we do have special school busses), but rather from daycamps that find public transit to be the best solution vs. renting a private bus; but also — perhaps surprisingly — school field trips, which seem to often find "just get on a city bus" simpler to arrange than getting the public schoolbus system(?) to get drivers to work a special spot shift hauling kids to who-knows-where.
  - sidewndr46 3y ago
    Interesting, where I grew up school children could not use public transport (while at school at least). We had our own bus system (which was superior to the public transport) and sometimes used private for-hire buses.

sunflowerfly 3y ago

I have seen a few young kids in school uniforms on the tube in London. Most, but not all, seem to have a chaperone. Two or three young kids traveling together is not unusual. We only noticed it because it is becoming unusual to see kids walking to school even here in rural America. They all get dropped off until they are old enough to drive (14/15 here). It probably does not help that community schools are getting replaced with massive schools on the outskirts (where large parcels of land are still available) of town.