I don't know why this is so hard to understand and why people like you argue so hard against the safety of transit over cars. "Passenger vehicles are by far th

I don't know why this is so hard to understand and why people like you argue so hard against the safety of transit over cars. "Passenger vehicles are by far the most dangerous motorized transportation option compared. Over the last 10 years, passenger vehicle death rate per 100,000,000 passenger miles was over 60 times higher than for buses, 20 times higher than for passenger trains, and 1,200 times higher than for scheduled airlines." https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics/deaths-by-transportation-mode/ https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics... In 2019 there were 268 public transit fatalities in the entire USA. 36,096 vehicle deaths, 2.7 milion injuries, 6.7 million crashes. In 2019, there were at least 14,375 total reported assaults on public transit in the US, with 8,309 on rail modes and 6,066 on bus modes. These assaults occurred both in-vehicle (50%) and in-station (49%). Additionally, there were 10,430 injuries and 250 fatalities related to these incidents. Keep in mind that at least some transit crime is not crime that you avoid by taking a car. A lot of crime incidents happen between people who know each other and the fact that they were on transit was merely where they happened to be. Something like 2-5% of all trips and 2% of all miles are made by public transportation in the US, so we can normalize our numbers to compare apples-to-apples. Even if we normalize conservatively in favor of automobiles at 2% (take our transit numbers and multiply by 98/2), we are at: 13,132 transit deaths 704,375 assaults 511,070 assault injuries 12,250 assault deaths This means that after normalization you are still looking at 4x more vehicular injuries than assault injuries and still more deaths for automobiles compared to transit. And really, transit statistics would not scale linearly like this as current ridership skews lower in socioeconomic status than the population as a whole (i.e., if everyone entered the transit system the overall rates of incidents per person would likely decrease). Let's not forget the health outcome benefits that are proven for transit users. Better cardiovascular health is one of many known benefits of taking transit instead of sitting in the car. Look, maybe seeing real life sometimes is a lot scarier than experiencing a contained and isolated life behind the wheel, but it is factually statistically safer. And maybe seeing some more real life would be good for people right now in a political environment where individualized motorists are only thinking for themselves and voting for politicians who want to cut social services. You'll believe in universal healthcare and housing pretty quickly if you are taking transit rather than resorting to the motorist's steel shield of blissful ignorance.