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Re:We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars (2016) by mrep on Thursday June 28, 2018 @09:28PM (#17421755)
My girlfriend experiences the same thing which is why she refuses to take public transportation without me. It is a huge problem that nobody here has claimed a solution for nor really talked about (not too surprising since HN is composed of 94.6% males according to [0]). Just google search "public transportation women" or use this link [1] to read into it more. It is one of the reasons we plan to move to suburbia once we get married/start having kids.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=591309

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=public+transportation+women&...

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Re:We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars (2016) by Karrot_Kream on Friday June 29, 2018 @01:56AM (#17422677)
Not doubting your experience at all, but my SO feels more comfortable on public transit than on an Uber/Lyft, where she feels like she has no control over what the driver chooses to do.

She also avoids the last hour of transit.

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Re:We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars (2016) by mrep on Friday June 29, 2018 @05:04AM (#17423332)
She also tries to avoid taking Uber/Lyft but not too the extreme of public transportation.

We also got a car recently and this was one of the big reasons.

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