It might just come with having lived downtown while working a job where I was coming home after 10pm, but i definitely have had "there is violence happening around me, will someone stop it before it involves me" moments.

Normally though, the train/bus was entirely calm/less stressful than driving

Honestly i listened to so much juggalo shit walking around when i lived downtown, and LOUD (over the ear headphones so hopefully not enough to disturb anyone elses peace, but enough u could TELL) bc its got this fuk u tone that i figured gave off the right "i will fight you back if you bug me" vibes

Ugh i know. Or to approve it they need to make their own separate suburbs bus company that is incompetant at doing anything compared to the city bus, but looks nicer or w/e. So it takes at least an hour to get anywhere AND the busses only happen like 3 times a day. Like wtf guys, what is this for?

Oh, yeah, sorry 😅
Probably could also have just taken all that to Marr's DMs but 🤷

My experience is that the reputationally-dangerous stops are way less dangerous than stops near popular bars downtown though. Privileged drunk men are way scarrier than a bunch of drugged out homeless people huddled in a bus stop with the heat lamp on for warmth.

Oh, and since the bus goes everywhere, if you need to wait a long while to show up, say at night when they drop down to 1 bus every hour, then depending on where you are, staying still at the stop can also be dangerous.

9 times out of 10 its drugs, alcohol or mental health thats the root cause, and the bus is just where that person can be. Busses tend to be better than trains though bc the drivers are in the tin can with the disturbance, so notice it and call it in faster.

The biggest thing to know is how to keep your head down, tbh. If you act like the people fist fighting dont matter, they will stay over there, eventually transit police will come and break them up.

Unfortunately, busses and trains can be dangerous sometimes. It is not as often as the "its so dangerous i would never do that" people seem to believe, but i have definitely been in situations that i think people would consider dangerous on a bus/train

I remember sitting in a timeout and then my mom getting really upset and ranting to me about it.