[quote=spdrun]Speaking as an East Coaster, I’ve honestly experienced more situations where I felt threatened on the road than on public transport.
Example: I was 19. I had an old Fiat convertible handed down from my sister who had bought it for $400, then couldn’t figure out how to keep it running. Driving back to college, I merged onto a freeway a bit too close to an old Honda Civic full of angry asshats. They changed lanes, came beside me, and one of them started waving a large knife out the rear passenger window, shouting, signifying, and swearing.
They passed me, but changed lanes in front of me whenever I changed lanes. Finally, I signaled left just before an exit, started changing lanes to the left, and cranked the wheel over to make the exit at the very last moment. They tried to do the same, but didn’t quite make it — they probably needed the services of an upholstery cleaner to get the brown stains out![/quote]
Still, think of what could’ve happened if you looked at these guys the same way and you weren’t in a car?
I’ve actually been in a fight just for looking at some guy so again, a car is more “space” than a bus/subway/trolley…where someone having a bad day can result in you getting stabbed.
I’d had enough road rage incidents to hate driving too…I think I’m actually more calm on public transportation, but again, you don’t know who is going to be on the bus or at a football game (plenty of crazies there).
Oh well, we’ll just disagree that public transport IMO simply isn’t going to work for some people here in the US…Much safer in say, Japan where you see little 8 year old girls riding alone…
