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CTA riders debate 'manspreading' and bad manners

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[quote user="CSSHEGEWISCH"] Bad behavior exists on the roads, too.  Somehow, being protected in a steel cocoon brings out the jerk in a lot of people who otherwise might be polite. [/quote] True!   In my car, however, I have never had a passenger who was a stranger to a bath, shouts into a cell phone, sprawls into my space, shouts obsenities, or bombards me with music that I don't like.  I experienced all of these things, as well as several unmentionable acts, in the years that I rode public transit in New York, Dallas, Melbourne, and Austin.  The percentage of people using public transport in the United States to commute has remained nearly the same from 1989 (4.6 per cent) to 2012 (5.0 per cent).  These figures are taken from statistical samples.  After correction for chance, they are essentially unchanged. To be sure, in some areas of the country, use of public transport has increased, but the percentage of people using it in most areas, even where it has been improved, is relatively small.   Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) has invested more than $6 billion in the longest light rail system in the country.  Yet only 1.8 per cent of the people in the communities served by the light rail system use it.  And at least 23 per cent of the users don't have an alternative mode of transport according to DART.
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