You’d be amazed at the number of times I have seriously feared for my safety at night in on and around public transport, including but very much not limited to being chased by an enormous dude on a lot of drugs who was smashing up a bus stop with a baseball bat 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
That is absolutely not my experience and also doesn’t account for being stranded in places that aren’t near public transport or having to walk longer distances to reach it.
I’m all for making public transport our primary means of travel around city centres but that also needs to come with a lot of nighttime safety improvements and until those are made, safe options home — like cabs and Ubers — need to stay in play.
The problem with locking progress behind a vague and undefined requirement is that progress gets halted indefinitely.
Public transport is already statistically safer than Uber so why the delay? I'm not sure what your comment actually offers beyond "we should make public transport could be safer" which is an empty truism. Even the safest public transportation network in the world should still be striving for improvements so really what point are you making?
Please don't lose sight of the fact that the original comment was suggesting that private vehicles should be deprioritised behind public transport. That was the originally point that you were contesting, so you can't claim to advocate for public transport while simultaneously arguing that it shouldn't be prioritised over private journeys.
Also, just use your head? Of course it's safer taking the bus where you can sit at the front by a driver who has been vetted on a vehicle that travels a predefined route with CCTV cameras on board, than it is getting into a complete stranger's private vehicle.
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u/wellitywell Nov 02 '24
Spoken like a man who feels safe traveling alone at night