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Well thank God for that because I would rather not risk getting assaulted on the train, or ride with people shooting up and vaping, or experience it catching fire underground and breathing in enough smoke from an electrical fire to guarantee cancer, all of which happen regularly around here. Give me those robo taxis, baby.

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So you can get carjacked instead? I’d have thought watching so much local TV news would have informed you that leaving the house is unacceptably risky.

I don’t watch local news but I did take the metro to work for many years.

Me too, but never that risky. The worst it got was a drunk college girl throwing up on the way back from the bar.

Move to a first world country

Glib and ironic since first world countries are the ones where these types of problems exist the most.

The joke is your think your country is good, but it turns out it's terrible if those things are "happening regularly"

I would not trade my standard of living for better public transit.

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