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Just mind your own business and leave people alone, and you will be just fine on the subway. I would bet that about 90% of the crimes on the subway were due to people stirring up trouble or riling people up.
Can you think before you post and waste my time? Do you really think all those Asian women pushed onto the tracks, (plus that poor woman on the platform in Far Rockaway that got the holy hell beat out of her by a mental patient) were stirring up trouble?
People in this city have become downright STUPID..
Compare costs. Take the train unless you are frightened (of nothing) or opt to take cabs wherever you want to go. You can always opt for buses if time is not of concern,,,they can be slow.
I don't understand why people ignore this option. Alot of folks who are visiting or live in the more affluent areas can afford it.
I wish I had an express bus---I would 100% take it. But if you work off-shift, you're screwed.
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Originally Posted by TheWiseShopper
Just mind your own business and leave people alone, and you will be just fine on the subway. I would bet that about 90% of the crimes on the subway were due to people stirring up trouble or riling people up.
Really? I can assure you that every time I've been harassed, threatened, touched, etc. I have NEVER even spoken to them, looked at them, etc. before it happened. When it happens multiple times you can see why people would be tired of the subway.
I don't understand why people ignore this option. Alot of folks who are visiting or live in the more affluent areas can afford it.
Staten Island (no subway lines on S.I.) has numerous express bus routes but the other outer boroughs have fewer express routes. I always wondered why neighborhoods like high income Park Slope/Windsor Terrace never had an express bus route. With the MTA's endless budget problems I'd say the chances of expanding the express bus networks in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx are pretty slim. The MTA and others grumbles about the cost of the express bus network, but those buses are how a lot of NYC's upper middle-income people who can't WFH get to/from their jobs. You remember them, the NYC tax base.
Staten Island (no subway lines on S.I.) has numerous express bus routes but the other outer boroughs have fewer express routes. I always wondered why neighborhoods like high income Park Slope/Windsor Terrace never had an express bus route. With the MTA's endless budget problems I'd say the chances of expanding the express bus networks in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx are pretty slim. The MTA and others grumbles about the cost of the express bus network, but those buses are how a lot of NYC's upper middle-income people who can't WFH get to/from their jobs. You remember them, the NYC tax base.
Park Slope and Windsor Terrace have pretty good subway access which is probably why they don't have express bus service. Park Slope is also a pretty different level of high income than Windsor Terrace is, so grouping them is a bit weird. I think Windsor Terrace would be a lot more attractive if they capped over the expressway, but who knows when if ever they'll have the funds for such.
Staten Island (no subway lines on S.I.) has numerous express bus routes but the other outer boroughs have fewer express routes. I always wondered why neighborhoods like high income Park Slope/Windsor Terrace never had an express bus route. With the MTA's endless budget problems I'd say the chances of expanding the express bus networks in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx are pretty slim. The MTA and others grumbles about the cost of the express bus network, but those buses are how a lot of NYC's upper middle-income people who can't WFH get to/from their jobs. You remember them, the NYC tax base.
We have a lot of express buses, especially in Northeast Queens (no subway), but yeah, agree with you about the upper middle class areas. Those are the areas that are the tax base. If they ever cut it, I would drive or take the railroad.
We're on holiday from California here in NYC. Took the subway today from Times Square to Jamaica - subway looks old and tired - and the trains are crowded but it got us there. Certainly no comparison to Beijing or Singapore or even BART. But at least New Yorkers have an option. I do wish there were glass barriers preventing people from entering trains until they arrived.
Sounds like you’re cool with the subway then. I’m not. Statistics aren’t everything. I’ve been through innumerable driving courses from the basics on up to various levels of combat driving, with practical experience overseas, and in my time as a cop.
I am much more comfortable driving my vehicle than I am hoping that a protected-class psycho doesn’t get the jump on me, or worse, I have to shoot one and deal with a court system stacked against normal humans.
When driving, you have to count on the hundreds of people around you, less trained than you are, and their command of deadly machines weighing thousands of pounds. This is a constant each time you drive. Taking the subway, you are faced with an INCREDIBLY small chance that someone picks you out of ALL people to attack. The subway is safer, obviously.
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