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I prefer to call them Pavement Princess.

yeah, I'm also not quite old enough for that, but the modern conservative narrative would have you believe that most cities are actual warzones right now that are worse than the 80s. i imagine it was similar then. it's hard to trust what people try to tell you about it anymore.

Yeah did a little research

Using the available data, the rate of reported violent crime on the NYC subway in 2024 is approximately 0.79 violent crimes per million riders.

https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/pr0101/nypd-citywide-crime-statistics-march-first-quarter-2024

Perhaps the HK mass transit system is safer, but I’m guessing not by that much, considering the ridership and crime rates, especially because they don’t report specific crime rates for mass transit that I could find but rather generic crime statistics

https://www.censtatd.gov.hk/en/EIndexbySubject.html?scode=400&pcode=FA100161

Gotta love this comic with subtle tones that “public transportation is dangerous” and this comment with “Chinese public transportation isn’t dangerous.”

That's funny, I used to live in Louisiana. I would occasionally go out drinking with my friends, and not one time did I ever not see at least one bar fight. And it didn't matter what kind of bar or club it was, it always happened. It's just a core part of society down there.

One time I was at a bar in Lake Charles and I was watching the "Malice in the Palace" which was a big fight during an NBA game where some players went into the stands and were punching fans. The TV was muted but I could still hear the sounds of the fighting; eventually it dawned on me how strange this was and I turned around to see a huge fight going on in the bar behind me with guys being thrown into tables and whatnot like an episode of Bonanza.

I forgot a /hj on 3.

And of course I'm "ignorant" about the US railway system because I live in Hong Kong and not US

Also remember that the subway is a flat fare no matter how long you ride. You can go from Coney Island to the Bronx on that $2.90. and back again. You only pay again if you exit.

Eh. The only times I ever had trouble navigating Japan's public transit were finding bus stops, Shinjuku Station, and one (actually two) random stations in between Kyoto and Osaka. Busses are shit the world around (and most of the highway buses double up with train stations where an attendant will gladly explain what random corner to stand in), Shinjuku Station is an eldritch horror that NOBODY can navigate, and Google to this day does not realize those are two different stations and they have a lot of duplicated named lines.

But yeah. People very much underestimate US public transit... inside cities (and on the East Coast). Most I have used take the approach that if you use one system enough times in a day/month (via a card or single credit card) it just auto-buys you an unlimited pass for that period.

I've stayed in Shinjuku for probably closer to two or three months than not over the past decade. LOVE the area and never have a problem finding my train no matter how out of it I am. But I have also NEVER managed to actually find the exit I want and invariably end up just exiting out to the street and walking around the station to get where I want to go. And locals I know have had similar complaints where they either luck out and their train drops them off in front of the exit they want or they just pretend they are going shopping before going home.