[sevensor]

Thank you for saying this, I was hoping somebody would bring class into it. Intercity bus lines aren’t subsidized because poor people ride buses between cities, and as a society we prefer not to subsidize poor people’s physical mobility. Physical mobility is a prerequisite for social mobility, after all.

[searealist]

I suspect you are not aligned with me. I am saying that lower-class people, on average, have behavior that middle-class people don't want to be exposed to. Look at some of the stories in this thread.

[sevensor]

I’ve been my share of 15 hour bus rides. Greyhound. Megabus. Changing buses downtown at midnight. Mostly it’s just people trying to get around. Worst that ever happened is I got scammed out of $20 when I was a kid and I’d never heard “I’m trying to get back to Virginia but I’m $31 short” before. I mean sure, there might be a junkie taking way too long in the bathroom, but people intent on doing you actual harm are pretty thin on the ground.

[searealist]

> Mostly it’s just people trying to get around

That's not good enough. It needs to be 99%. Look at the other stories in this thread. Even 5% is enough to avoid it.

Moreover, you come across as someone driven by ideology rather than honesty. You jumped straight into a cliched talking point about how the man is maliciously trying to keep poor people down.

[sevensor]

> That's not good enough. It needs to be 99%. Look at the other stories in this thread. Even 5% is enough to avoid it.

That’s a pretty high standard considering the behavior of highway drivers. How do you get around, friend?

[searealist]

It's the standard I meet by flying any airline except Frontier or Spirit.

[tivert]

> Look at the other stories in this thread. Even 5% is enough to avoid it.

A lot of them sound like: "Ick, I saw poor people, never again will I subject myself to that. I now restrict myself to modes of transport too expensive for those poors to use."

[searealist]

blasting music, smoking drugs, feeling unsafe...