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Re:Nearly the hottest place on Earth, India swelters under i... by vkou on Saturday April 30, 2022 @06:57AM (#31214998)
Public transit sucks in areas where only poor people use it.

When everyone has to use it, all of a sudden, everyone becomes invested in improving it.

> unsafe

Driving is unsafe. ~40,000 people die while driving in the US every year, and many more are seriously injured.

Public transit is so much safer, it's not even in the same ballpark.

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Re:Nearly the hottest place on Earth, India swelters under i... by ekianjo on Monday May 09, 2022 @12:24PM (#31316125)
> Public transit is so much safer, it's not even in the same ballpark.

It's safer because it goes nowhere in the first place. I can't even believe you guys are even trying to compare public transport which is super limited in the areas they can possibly cover (by definition, because it's made to cover denser areas), and stuff like cars which can go virtually anywhere, anytime, in pretty much any weather condition. In video games that would like comparing a rail shooter to an open world one: they are too different products and the overlap in utility is very narrow.

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