I'm from Europe so not sure if that's a US thing but that's certainly not such a big topic over here. Yes, public transport can't be 100% safe, being in public never is. But rapes in public transport and blood stains on seats are so rare that I don't know a single person who avoids public transport because of it. It's always just convenience, sometimes price.
Yes, I'm also from Europe. Public transport in Europe is much safer than in some urban areas in the U.S., but that is often true in general for just walking down in the street in a place like Bern or Frankfurt than in New Orleans or Oakland (these are the two cities where I had friends assaulted on public transport).
That's why it's so shocking when these things happen and are accepted by people who actually resist reform because they view enforcing standards of cleanliness and safety as being "anti-poor" and suggest that even complaining about these issues is being classist instead of just advocating for basic human decency and higher quality public transport.
I'm not hearing any suggested reforms, I just hear complaining. Please, give me basic human decency and higher quality public transit. How do you get there?
BART has police, they're shockingly bad, even for police.
