I’m mtset! I mostly use the Fediverse from Mastodon but beehaw specifically is special enough to get its own account from me.

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These cities are ending fares on transit. Here's why ( www.cnn.com )

What’s interesting about this article is what it leaves out. It cites experts who claim this is “diverts scarce resources from more pressing priorities: transit service and quality” yet that was far from the case in one of the cities cited in the introduction....

mtset ,
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Eeh? I’m a woman, I don’t have this problem on transit at all, either in Chicagoland or in SF. First of all, witnessing open drug use isn’t, like, the end of the world; it might make you uncomfortable, but it’s not dangerous.

Being harassed is a real fear, but I find that I’m more often harassed while I’m just walking around than in a bus, train, or the muni, and when I’m on board transit there are cameras and an operator to potentially step in!

Public transit is a public good. If seeing poor people and drug users makes us uncomfortable, the solution is to address the root causes of poverty and addiction, not to force poor people off of public transit.

mtset ,
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Sure, but “our city handles homelessness poorly” isn’t a good argument for not improving public transit either!

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