• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    But you can do things while on the train like sleep or internet. It depends what that tradeoff is exactly, but I would still rather have a longer commute I can do things during.

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      1 year ago

      I would rather sleep for an extra 40 minutes then have to get up 40 minutes earlier.

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        1 year ago

        How much more likely are you to die in a car accident in a bus or train versus a car? How many times have you taken public transit that you have such a problem with the issues you mentioned?

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        1 year ago

        Chicken and egg problem. Crime highly correlates with poverty. People perceive transit as being a poor people thing because it’s cheap. Only poor people take transit. You get the gist.

        Also, the incidence rate is probably lower than people’s perception. I lived in San Francisco for about 3 years and only experienced one incident while taking transit everyday. Of course, transit doesn’t have the problem mentioned above, so maybe it’s not the best example.

        I tried taking transit a couple of times in LA and in my hometown in a suburb in Florida. Transit is underutilized in these places (read as, people see it as a poor person thing). It was surprisingly… uninteresting. It was just getting from A-to-B. People mostly just sat on their phones or stared out the window or chatted. Was quite nice.

        So maybe grab a friend or two for safety, since you’re concerned about that, and give it a shot. I think you’ll be surprised.

        But if you’re in LA or New York, the trains are super dirty. So uh, i recommend not one of those. No idea where you’re located

        (Edit: I’m assuming you’re in the US because that kind of opinion is quite common there.)