It's not just worse for the environment but also much more dangerous to drive a car compared to the incidents you cited. You think you are in control because you're behind the wheel, but you're not. You have no more control over other drivers than you do someone attacking someone on this light rail. It's like if you ask someone today (2019) if America is more dangerous than before they'd say yes because that's what they hear on the news, but the statistics show otherwise. Similarly here but with car crashes actually causing quite a lot of death and destruction.
> I'm not bringing my family (or even myself) anywhere near the lightrail. I'd prefer to drive just for their safety and mine. I know it's worse for the environment but their safety is my first concern.
> And such is the problem with public transit. It's easy to think of it as reducing load on the environment while forgetting that lax law enforcement turns it into a somewhat scary place to be with family members.
It's mind-boggling how so many countries can do it but we can't in the US. How is it that China, Japan, Korea, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom can do this but we can't? Are Americans objectively worse people?