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This is why you build transit for everyone. If you look at transit around the world (Japan, Singapore) you'll see transit that the old or infirm happily take. It's possible, you just need to believe that transit CAN be good for everyone! It doesn't and shouldn't be just for the "young and healthy".

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All of those places you listed don't tolerate a homeless/mentally unstable on public transport. Thats the only way it can work. No alternative. Strict enforcement of public behavior on them. The left leaning policies in all the big cities, where public transport would benefit most, aren't compatible with this requirement. Ours only recently started gaslighting us into claiming they never supported defunding the police!

I know exactly zero people that use public transport because of safety, specifically homeless/druggies. And yes, we all tried. I was an idiot and went with a kid, for my first and last time, after listening to a local, with mental blinders on.

I think you're confusing well funded healthcare with intolerance.

I'm actually, very clearly, referring to public transit and the realities of shared spaces that don't have behavioral enforcement, and, in most big cities, complete apathy and blindness to bad behavior.

Apparently you didn't understand what I was saying, because you didn't address it at all. And that speaks volumes.

No, I did. That's the apathy I was referring to. It's an excuse to allow unacceptable behavior, at the expense of everyone else in the shared space, leaving that shared space to be abandoned by anyone who has the means to abandon it.

Cities poll these things. Look up your local public transport polls, to see what others think. If you're in SF, for example, you wont be remotely surprised by the results [1].

[1] https://www.independentnews.com/news/regional_and_ca/bart-su...

I've never seen anyone so clearly talk past someone. I'm not in SF. For example.

And, you haven't said a word about even the possibility that good public healthcare, including mental healthcare funding, and a good social safety net vastly reduces those terribly inconvenient people in the streets with nowhere to go.

But in that case you'd have to blame the people in charge instead of the people.

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