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by sevensor 630 days ago
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.
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> 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.

> 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?

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

blasting music, smoking drugs, feeling unsafe...