alt Hacker NewsI’ve never been on a public bus and thought, “this is great!”. Crowded, dirty, and almost always there is someone on drugs or experiencing psychosis. I’ll stick to my car.
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I've never sat in car traffic and thought it was awesome either. It's a terrible economic drag and it's boring as fuck. There are solutions available.
I have used a lot of public transport in different cities and almost never experienced your problem. Crowded yes, but never unreasonably dirty or with lots of drug-addicts.
> almost always there is someone on drugs or experiencing psychosis
I'd say I've experienced far fewer "what is going on with this person and are they going to end up getting someone injured?" moments on public transportation than in cars.
Well it's either see someone experiencing psychosis, or be at a few orders of magnitude higher risk of dying or being seriously injured.
I often see these comparisons to cars and theyre just so dishonest, because nobody seems to mention the number one downside of driving a lot. Maybe we're desensitized to it. Driving is a fantastic way to die, one of the best.
I've never experienced that on a bus. but when transit is useless only those with no option use it and those tend to be the problems you state. Make transit useful and the problems go away