{"id":87382,"date":"2024-04-25T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87382"},"modified":"2024-04-24T11:06:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T16:06:05","slug":"the-real-problem-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87382","title":{"rendered":"The Real Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Metro Transit and the Strib have put out a “climate conscious newcomers guide to using Metro Transit”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s tempting to snark “they figure out who the real <\/em>problem is”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Familiarize yourself with Metro Transit’s code of conduct<\/a>, a lengthy and often-ignored rule book that mandates such things as keeping non-service animals in carriers, one seat per rider (no manspreading!), and no eating on board.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Those darn Manspreaders<\/em>! [1].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But later on, they note:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let’s talk about crime and nuisance behavior aboard transit, particularly the Blue and Green light-rail lines. This usually involves drug use, smoking, harassing, creepy, gross or criminal behavior. Metro Transit says it’s putting more police, private security and “transit rider assistance program” agents on buses and trains. Frequent transit users say they’re noticing these people, but it’s too early to say whether it’s helping.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Oooh, they drive a hard bargain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think I’ll help the environment more by staying home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And not taking a dump on a bus seat while in a drunken stupor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[1] For whatever reason, I hold anyone who unironically puts “Man-” in front of a verb to create a derogatory term in sneering contempt. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Metro Transit and the Strib have put out a “climate conscious newcomers guide to using Metro Transit”. It’s tempting to snark “they figure out who the real problem is”: Familiarize yourself with Metro Transit’s code of conduct, a lengthy and often-ignored rule book that mandates such things as keeping non-service animals in carriers, one seat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warmingcoolingchange","category-trains-and-automobiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87383,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87382\/revisions\/87383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}