Would you stop using public transit if you could?
- Yes
- No
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Asking this because the public transit system in the city next to me is imploding. Mutiple stabbings last week. A shooting on a bus yesterday. Another stabbing on a bus today. People constantly being attacked and abused at bus and train stops. Drivers are quitting because of poor working conditions and they can’t recruit replacements - no one wants to work in such an unsafe environment.
I haven’t used public transport since I was in my 20s
Never again if I can help it
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I’m afraid to even try to drive. I use public all the time.
Edit: I’m lucky I have someone close working for taxi.
I have to use it for now but hoping one day that will change
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I have to see my shrink in the city and it’s public transport because the parking in the city is way too expensive. So every 6 weeks or so it’s a 45 minute train trip into the city. It’s not too bad but around lunch you get the interesting crowd. I’ve seen fights and other nonsense happen in a train over the years so if I could drive and it was affordable to park I’d do that in a heartbeat.
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When I lived in Chicago, I experienced some things, man.
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I used to ride the bus a lot in Kansas City, Missouri. Talk about a live show!! 
Thankfully where I live now most of what I need is within walking distance to my apartment.
If I could use public transportation like a bus or something I’d use it there’s nothing like that around here
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I have no public transportation where i live.
None where I live either, thankfully.
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I live in a city not very different than Chicago. Definitely less crime but still a lot. I see weird things all the time. I just clutch my pepper spray in my pocket and keep my eyes out and ears open
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Ive always owned a car but if i didnt i would rather bicycle
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Me too.
I had psychosis on train station once and spent whole day at station as voices said i couldn’t get on the train.
Also afraid of having anxiety attack and needing to isolate yet being surrounded by people.
I can’t catch public transport anymore.
Don’t think i would dare fly overseas either.was psychotic at airports and was horrible.
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Oh I’m sorry @Truemist8
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The airport is bad, but the plane itself is worse for me. I am so glad my current job doesn’t require any sort of flying. I’d have to megadose APs for days after every work trip to try and stabilize myself again. Every trip left me with huge cracks in my insight. Riding a bus has the same effect, but at least I can get off at the next stop.
I handle driving a bus much better, but that’s because I am so busy with monitoring my environment that it pushes the illness to one side.
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I don’t get on planes and am scared to death of flying.
I don’t mind cruise ships.
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Ha, no I went and although I got sick for a day, I didn’t get Covid.
Actually had a great time…
The best time in a while!
At the initial stage of the pandemic there was all this speculation that Covid was a surface spreader. Uh, no. Very few industries are as well equipped to deal with surface spreaders like the cruise industry was after they got hit with Norwalk virus. That it went through cruise ships like a hot knife through butter, especially through adjoining cabins who had no other contact than shared air, showed it was airborne. It would have been stopped cold on cruise ships if it was a surface spreader.
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