And they think the LA Metro is dangerous 🤔🤔🤔
And they think the LA Metro is dangerous 🤔🤔🤔
The Metro is dangerous. I feel safer driving.
Almost always translate to "I am more scared of the poor than getting in a car crash". Which is honestly fucking wild to me. My biggest concern with public transport is getting sick
I can understand women and trans people being afraid of Metro and other transit, especially if they’ve had bad experiences in the past. It’s more dangerous for some people to be alone in public than others.
Saying that as someone who’s been called slurs on public transit, but also is usually perceived as a fem guy. My biggest concern is definitely still getting sick (N95s every single trip).
That's a problem with general culture of an area though, not public transit.
It's dangerous for people of those demographics to be alone practically anywhere in public — not just on public transit. It entirely will depend on the local climate, though, with areas that lean more red having a more oppressive culture than elsewhere.
Framing it as "them being afraid of taking transit" paints it as being the problem itself instead of as a consequence of a much larger issue.
my biggest concern with public transport is that there's not enough of it
Media in the USA has been pro car for a long time. So many sitcoms make taking the bus seem like a horrible experience.
Every. Single. Time.
Every one of their excuses to justify their mentality is just regurgitated propaganda that is intentionally pushed to demonize the poor.
@sharkfucker420 @Davriellelouna Or, "I enjoy trashing the planet but realize that's shameful so I need an excuse."
More than half of the car crash fatalities were pedestrians so when you are driving yourself you have good odds to kill someone else rather than yourself
but the metro is full of crazy (homeless) people
You think you have to pass a mental health test to get a license? The person driving right next to you could be having a mental breakdown and you wouldn't even know. At least if someone's yelling on the metro I can notice them and switch cars.
The metro is fine. Its full of people goong to work. Sometimes annoying teens.
Sometimes if youre on like the pink line or something at midnight, you'll find a methed up fucker with a knife. The conversation will be so dumb, but youll feel like an ass just telling him to fuck off.
Streets also have unhoused people. They tend to live there.
Bro if your city has more homicides than car crashes you have bigger problems than traffic.
Yes, if your city has more homicides than traffic deaths, the bigger problem is—drum roll please—homicides.
But if your city has more traffic deaths than homicides, then traffic is a bigger problem than homicides. Which is the whole point of this post.
Nah. They are problems that should not be compared like that since they are fundamentally different: traffic deaths occur as a risk of travel/mobility. The underlying reason is good/ok. Murders do not have that.
Murders and traffic deaths are usually an order of magnitude or more apart.
Then why spend more on cops than metro?
Aren't car crashes in top 5 of causes of death in the USA?
Top 3 for adults. Top 2 for children.
Don't get in a crash. You'll cause traffic to back up and that's not very considerate. Also you'll get hurt I guess.
I mean that's...kind of good....
Like people don’t realize they drive a tank..
Empty comment for me.
This is clear evidence they need more guns.