Is life in the U.S.A really as catastrophic and terrible as the media makes it out to be?

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[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (18 children)

In a functional society they'd do things like keep the public transportation clean

Depending on demographics that is not possible. You can put a brand new bus on a rout and it comes back with scrathed graphiti in the windows and absolutely torn to shit. No amount of money or maintenance can keep up when a clean buss is literally a target that itself drives these people to destroy it.

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (17 children)

Hence my comment on a "functional society".

If it truly is that bad they need to have security on every bus.

Some degree of vandalism is to be expected but it cannot be tolerated. Simply sending round patrols to catch the teenagers and sentence them with community service to clean up the messes they make would fix a lot.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (16 children)

Your "solution" is tantamount to the famous "let them eat cake". It is delusional. Even stationing officers on every buss is impossible because they phisically can't watch everyone all the time. The idea that you could track down a person after the fact is laughable. You would be publicly mocked for your stupidity if you tried to punnish someone in that way. It would almost always cost more than fixing the damage. The problem is in some communities everyone is liable to do it. The damage is too much to keep up with.

You can't wrap your head around it because you have no experience with people like that. The trouble makers in your community are few and your solutuons assume that. It is delusional.

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (15 children)

Then they shouldn't run busses to those communities.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

Sure buddy. Think about that for a second.

How exactly is that better than running the busses in the state they are in?

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

Not running busses costs the taxpayers less money.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

Why have any busses at all then?

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

A properly maintained and safe transit system offers a number of benefits. Namely it can reduce traffic to highly congested urban areas, as well as provide cheaper access to workers as well as customers into an urban center which can stimulate economic growth.

A poorly maintained and unsafe system offers little to no benefit to the society at large.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

A poorly maintained and unsafe system offers little to no benefit

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it can reduce traffic to highly congested urban areas, as well as provide cheaper access to workers as well as customers into an urban center which can stimulate economic growth

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Hardly, because nobody will use it if it isn't safe