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Really? I take the bus all the time. It's just normal people. Unless this is an obscure reference about drug use in your neighborhood or something that's compl

• daseiner1 2y ago
  To be clear, the majority of bus takers in my experience (several large cities on the West Coast of the US) are perfectly nice people. But often enough as to be a nuisance there are individuals who are: severely mentally ill, openly using drugs or intoxicated, blasting music on their phones, hostile or aggressive, lecherous and intimidating towards female passengers.
• nradov 2y ago
  This varies widely by area. In the SF Bay Area due to public policy failures in housing, mental health, and substance abuse, some of the main bus routes have turned into rolling homeless shelters. You don't always see that but it's pretty obvious on certain routes at certain times. This makes some normal people uncomfortable — particularly women traveling alone. Regardless of whether that reaction is rational or not, it's another factor that discourages normal people from riding the bus and causes them to vote against public transit funding.
  • whimsicalism 2y ago
    what public policy would you suggest?
• whimsicalism 2y ago
  there is pretty often someone crazy on the buses i take, both in SF and DC where i grew up. generally i dont feel unsafe but i also dont enjoy being in an enclosed space with someone losing their mind