Originally Posted by maisany
Why are you "surprised" that the subway would be safe? It's not as though the New York City subway system was used predominantly to ferry dangerous convicted criminals back and forth or something. The vast majority of riders of the NY subway system are plain, ordinary people, who are just trying to get to where they are going, with no more malice in their hearts than you or me. These are the same people who you find at airports, malls and other public places. Unless you're going to tell me that you have some sort of aversion to any public place where such people might congregate, I don't understand why you would assume anything different about the subways. On what basis are you concluding that the bus from EWR would be "safer still"? Once again, we're talking about the middle of the day on a Sunday.
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While I understand where you're going, I think you're being unfair. I see behavior on the subway on a weekly basis that I have never seen in a mall or an airport.
There are crazy people who live in the subway. Certainly not every train or every station, but they're there.