What a strange topic. All of you public transportation people are delusional.
Excuse me if I enjoy my car and going where/when I want and getting to stay away from all the smelly weirdos and homeless people jerking off and screaming at strangers on busses.
I generally drive from Florida to the Chicago area straight through once a year to visit family. My car gets 45-50mpg highway, and it is cheaper and less hassle than airplane tickets for the fam and a rental car (which I would need because who the fuck travels somewhere to stay in one place. Even visiting friends for me requires an hours drive sometimes)
You guys live in some fantasy land where not only are buses clean and safe and lovely to ride on, but that there's a bus that on command will take you exactly where you need to at any given moment.
Ugh, it's like none of you have ever worked in retail, a gas station, or fast food. It is a treat and pleasure to get to avoid the disgustingly idiotic and rude general populous by having personal transportation. My skin crawls just thinking about having to lower myself to get on the bus with a bunch of gross "public transportation" people that are like they were from people of Walmart dot Com but 100x worse and deal with the fucking bums and crazies
This is an absolutely disgusting post. There are tactful ways to say you're concerned about safety on public transportation instead of just being like "I don't wanna go near those gross poors".
The reason people like that exist is due to a lot of the same kind of decision making that led to our poor city planning in the first place anyway. Hopefully you'd assume if we ever re-focus there, we get actual attempts to address income inequality too. Plus as adjl said if you have more people in general using transit you should feel safer