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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV
What harassment do you regularly experience when riding public transit? Someone trying to sell you loose cigarettes? Homeless people walking down the train asking for money? Musicians playing for tips? Crazy people muttering to themselves? Black Panthers handing out sandwiches to people in need? The Jehovah Witnesses standing in front of train stations with their posterboards? Street preachers telling you some bullshit about Jesus? Some of these are annoying I guess, but I'm not sure that's what you're talking about...
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All of that, plus drug addicts, drunkards fighting, low life's and aggressive gang members, weirdos vibing you out, jerk's staring at your wife's tits.
There's a reason everybody tries not to make eye contact with anybody while riding public transit, it's like riding with a pack of feral dogs, one accidental glance can be taken as offense.
These are all problems that are avoided by driving in your own car, jamming out, relaxing in a perfect air temperature, or windows down for some fresh air, without looking for barf in your seat before you sit down.
Just about every single transit system in America is NOT used by investment bankers and lawyers. In Manhattan, yes that's common, just about everywhere else, no, that's not the reality.