Superior Risk Assessment

Let's be real: they're terrified that they might be forced to be near poor people, minorities, gays, and mentally ill folk.

I've done both.

Safest place in the subway is at the front of the first car near the motorman. Second best is the front of the second car. If there's trouble you can move to the first car [with the motorman easily] and have two doors between you and the troublemaker.

Driving is the highest-risk activity that the average person engages in on the average day.

It's dangerous, stressful, time-consuming, and expensive. I also think it is a significant contributing factor to our sedentary lifestyles and expanding waistlines. I'm resentful that the decision to go with automobile-based infrastructure was decided before I was even born and that I've never had a viable opportunity to vote against it.

What I really hate is that driving is a privilege. But not needing to drive (i.e. walkability, bikeability, and good transit) are also privileges. Fucked either way it would seem.

but there's crazy people on the subway

You don't think there's crazy people on the highway? And on the highway they're controlling a 2 ton killing machine in a sometimes stressful situation.

I'll take the crazy guy yelling in the corner of the subway then see what he's like behind the wheel of one of those huge pickup trucks during traffic.

I ride the subway all the time and haven’t been murdered yet. AMA

Conservative men are terrified of everything. Perpetual fear and petty grievances are the cornerstones of the entire conservative ethos.

I'm more terrified of driving a car in a city than on a highway. In a city one small mistake can mean killing a child or something. On the highway I can go at a moderate speed in the right lane without distractions.

Either way I prefer rails tho

Every time I get scared on a train, I just imagine a video of a train versus a car

I've never almost died on a bus.

I used to be a big fan of public transport, but after covid it went to shit in my country or rather, it went to shit in my part of the country. Pretty sure it is still great in Copenhagen. Those lucky bastards.

Either way you risk a possibility of being rear-ended.

Me and the boys boarding be like

I hate being within arms reach of people so fuck your subways and your neurotypical ease with dealing with ridiculously overstimulating stress-filled situations

Context to the subway?

pssh. they're both easy.

Where I live, half the year it's painfully cold outside. Then in the summer we alternate between unbearable heat (because we're not used to it) and torrents of rain recently.

We also don't have a subway system in any of our cities, have lower density cities because we don't have a huge population in general, and have better driver education than much of the US.

I realize it would be optimal for society for me to take public transit, but in these conditions I'd rather drive. And if I need to go somewhere close, walking is quicker than public transit (and in the winter, generates SOME heat. Standing around at a bus stop, not so much).

I promise if I ever move to NYC, I'll take the Subway when something is out of walking distance. I did when I visited. It was fine.