3 ms·
> This is more or less a completely imagined issue. The most dangerous form of transportation is personal vehicles, and its not even close. Sure, you can make
by johnfn 1y ago
> This is more or less a completely imagined issue. The most dangerous form of transportation is personal vehicles, and its not even close.
Sure, you can make that argument. I can even agree with you. But you're not going to convince my girlfriend, or most women for that matter, that they're "actually more safe" in a car than BART. Especially if she has to dodge people yelling or cat-calling her to get on the station. You or I can be totally fine with that. But I can't find it within me to fault her for not being OK with that, and wanting to call an Uber instead.
- const_cast 1y agoI already included this in my post - feeling unsafe is a different thing. I don't know how to solve people feeling unsafe, because it's a combination of human's irrational risk management and real-world limitations. If you remove walls and sound barriers, i.e. you go public for transportation, I'm not sure there's any way around the "feeling unsafe" problem.
- DennisP 1y agoMaybe the right framing here isn't safety, but how pleasant or unpleasant the experience is.