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You're ignoring that the average ride on Muni, Bart, or AC Transit involves someone who's visibly or audibly tweaking out, loudly muttering curse words or threa
by barbarr 1y ago
You're ignoring that the average ride on Muni, Bart, or AC Transit involves someone who's visibly or audibly tweaking out, loudly muttering curse words or threats to themselves / others, blasting music in the back from a tinny phone speaker, carrying a bag of cans and/or trash, or smelling offensively bad. It's no wonder that people won't want to take transit.
Source: someone who takes transit almost daily and has seen a LOT, and has received death threats on the bus twice in one year.
- vel0city 1y agoYeah, far better to just further isolate ourselves and act like there's nothing wrong than actually deal with these problems.
- rangestransform 1y agoIt is absolutely far better for me to isolate myself from the problem, I agree
- sometimes_all 1y agoMeanwhile, here in India, where there absolutely are valid questions over the behavior of general public as a whole, particularly over freeloading, crowding, decorum and cleanliness issues: I don't think there are many tweaking, curse words or death threat complaints going around in public transit. I find the US really weird sometimes.