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People need to feel comfortable and safe, then reliability comes into play.
Anything to back this up with? It feels like the same sort of talking point for why people don't want to use public transit in the first place (it's for poor people, it's for (insert racial demographic) etc.).
Nearly half of Toronto transit riders feel unsafe riding TTC: Ipsos poll. Regardless if they're "wrong" you have to do something to tackle that perspective.
globalnews.ca
Agreed.
I haven’t regularly taken the TTC at rush-hour in years, but I noticed the inspectors were all waiting at the bottom of the steps at Bathurst, there was also enforcement at Spadina (though you could literally walk right past them because the stanchions were open)
Anything more recent than this? I'm not moving goalposts but 2023 was coming out of COVID and much has changed b/w then and now. Is TTC ridership up/down compared to violent crime on TTC in that timeframe?
Why would anyone say this? It is a right, not a privilege.
Is "being safe" more concrete of a term? i.e. one has the right to be safe, whether or not they "feel" safe is a different question?
Setting aside that if someone is a direct threat to the safety of others, they might forfeit their own right to safety, which is another discussion.
Not really. I would say you'd need to specify some type of safety, one that is unlikely to be objectionable to society at large, i.e. the right of safety from bodily harm, or the threat of it. Anything less specific than that will inevitably end up alienating some social group or other. Some people may feel unsafe seeing homeless people around, but if they're not being violent or threatening the same, fulfilling one person's right to "feel safe" will directly clash with their (the homeless') own rights to use the transit system. Or, for a more extreme example, if you're a nutcase religious person, you may feel unsafe by seeing someone wearing a pentagram shirt, eyeliner, immodest amounts of skin or hair.
That study is about the US, I think road rage with guns is almost non existent in Canada. I'll see maybe 3 articles a year in the news and they're almost always at like 2am on a 400 highway.
I wasn't able to find a newer Ipsos poll. Though the TTC saying it's your fault you got pushed for travelling alone at night was a pretty shit take by them IMO.
Actuaries be damned; it's the perception of danger that matters. If I'm standing next to a crazed addict on the subway platform, who's incoherently shouting and flaying about and walking up behind me, BUT does not try to push me onto the tracks, the actuaries will say that was a safe trip. Well screw them. Fix the perception of danger and the real danger will also be addressed, and the regular, sane, sober and stable passengers will return.
This is the same system that considers 3 bunched busses or streetcars as "on time" since they left the terminal within 3 mins of schedule.
So what are they? Enlighten us rather than expect us to operate on the same brainwave as you.
