[notch656a]

I thought that was part of the experience. Red Line in chicago I regularly had schitzophrenic people start to breakdown with violent tendencies in front of me, watch people shoot up drugs, smell a mixture of piss and shit and general stench of months long unwashed clothing of the unhoused. Watch the news and even the CTA employees on the red line have been known to shoot customers whom they disagree with in the back [1].

Public rail in many places is a dangerous, dirty, and chaotic experience. A gritty, anarchistic, and truly American experience. Yet, this is why I loved it. I hope it never changes -- a complete departure from the sterile, arrogant, and uninspiring clinical reality of air travel. I'd rather be stabbed on the red-line than watch it descend into a dystopic clinical, authoritarian, dressdown administered by the TSA in the name of safety.

[1] https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/3/27/22998488/cta-wo...