because white people (in american culture) are pussies

white middle class fears everything
>He says it's cheaper for him even though he has to pay for parking.
You should report him to the police, stealing petrol is a serious crime.
Also buses are the least form of Public Transportation and should not be used as an example.
And that is a lightrail vehicle not a train.

>>157419

dumbass, BART is heavy rail EMU. Hybrid commuter rail outside the San Francisco core and somewhat metro-like inside the city.

>>157413
Who needs a car when you can cycle?
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYINYgT3c_E

I'm a white hippie. I don't own a car, I ride the bus because there's no Tram system in the small college town I live in.

Feels good man, It's nice having free Public Transportation because you go to school. It's in our tuition or something fuck yeah.

I assume we're talking about a transplantfag here. Ask him why the hell he moved to one of the greatest urban centers in the US if he's just going to continue to live his pathetic suburban lifestyle.

TL;DR Tell him to move back to the Midwest.

>Why are white folk afraid to ride public transportation?
Well without a city, its meaningless. For example, in Atlanta, unless you are going to the airport during the day, you don't get on MARTA. In DC, you stay off the green line but everything else is game. I would imagine in SF, as long as you stay out of Oakland, you'd be fine.

Muni busses suck. They're full of thugs and crazies. Muni light rail isn't bad though. I ride the J every now and then since it's only a block from my house. I ride my bike more than anything though.

White people in the suburbs are afraid that if public transportation comes to their town, it'll bring niggers from the inner city who'll rob their houses while they're at work. See also: LOOT Rail.

>>157586

No one's going to blame you for not riding the J. At least you ride your bike though.

>>157459
and what if you want to travel around the rest of Atlanta?

I use public transportation/mass transit a lot. I vanpool with like 8 people to work and ride the trains all the time in the city. Or, I walk. If I have to go somewhere it's usully on a motorcycle anyway, then I walk around.

Because white people are scared of any one who is poor and/or not white.
/thread

>>157803

And with good reason. Yes, i understand that the vast majority of poor or coloured people are just like you or me - perfectly nice individuals, but there's that small minority that go and fuck it up. I just don't like taking the risk of part of that small minority breaking my nose and stealing my shit.

>>157413

see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQJFv9SMSMQ

Many of the elite whites live in sparsely populated standalone housing areas that don't provide enough people within a decent walking radius to serve anything more than the odd bus line.

because they're american therefore afraid of anything

white people in germany ride public transport quite regularly and don't bother about turkish or slavic folk riding as well

>>157785
>and what if you want to travel around the rest of Atlanta?
You drive.

>>158201
I think I found the problem

>>158204
>Thinks you can live in Atlanta without a car.

white suburbanite here.

I'm not afraid, and on rare occasion I use it.
The fact that its rare is that its seldom convienient, so i don't.
Actually, I wish it was more convenient. I would freaking LOVE to ride a train to work everyday.

(not convenient means - 1 or 1.5 hour walk from home just to get to the furthest reaches of our public transportation system to catch the bus that comes once a morning, so I could arrive at work an hour early. OR I could just drive for 20 minutes and get to work.)

>>157633

See also, 2nd Avenue subway line.

It's not just the suburbs.

Partly because of racism and because of class. Most caucasians prefer using the cars because they fear that using public transportation will perceive them as poor, despite saving money on transportation. Public transport is perceived by those who can afford using a car as transportation for poor people. Now for the racism argument, poor people= ethnic minorities.

But in the DC area, there are plenty of white people who use public transport because they don't want to deal with the traffic gridlock and it's cheaper.

trams are very classy vehicles. the classiest of the classy live in the city, tram is *the* vehicle of the city. it's not a city if it's not equipped with revenue service trams.

I love public transport, but can't use in most places. Wheelchairfag here.

>>157426

Kind of the same here, although I'm not a hippie and we have a lovely light rail system that goes straight to campus.

There are two stops on campus. Very convenient.

Poorfags without cars who ride the light rail and or public transportation. How do you bring home groceries, HD LCD tv's, new mattresses, furniture, bags of landscaping mulch, etc? Oh that's right poor folk don't even own things like beds or lawns or refrigerators. So your poor ass can easily ride without logistical problems associated with people who actually buy stuff and support the local economy instead of placing a daily strain on it.

>>158885
That brings the current count of users on /n/ to three.

Too bad one of them is WRONG.

You did know that the poorfags you so deride live on the most expensive properties known to mankind? The properties aren't expensive because of their residents being poor.

The properties are expensive because the people can actually afford the prices. Other costs of living such as /n/ are down (with higher quality services available) and jobs tend to pay more in the city centres.

People choose life in the city -- life built on top of transit -- because life in the city is the best value for their lives. Maybe not yours. It's completely acceptable to prefer a more solitary, hard-working back-to-basics lifestyle outside of a city.

>>158885
Not sure if trollan.
Large appliances and furniture can be delivered obviously. A few day's worth of groceries can easily be hauled by backpack or small handcart.

>>158885
I have it delivered or I borrow a friend's car or I use zipcar. I sold my car because I only used it a couple times a month and a parking spot costs $150/mo in my building so it's just not worth it.

>>158885
mattress and furniture wouldn't fit in your car and would need a truck

>>158893
No, you don't buy a few days of groceries at a time if you live in the city.

There's a compact grocery store in every block, surely there's one conveniently on the commute. The extra price compared to off-town megastores is worth it when it comes to getting the food without any pre-planning whatsoever. No food spoiled, no food running out. Even if the whole extended family comes for a visit at the same time on two hours notice.

As for heavy goods: they're such a rare occasion it hardly justifies getting a pick-up truck. Just rent a van.

>>158885
if you lived close by and bought locally, as you should instead of living in an ever expanding wasteland of suburban developments and making trips 10-30 minutes to an hour or more to get anything and had to drive everywhere to do anything, then transporting most of those goods a short distance on foot or rail will be little or no problem

>>158896

this

Also, I have already transported furniture (a wardrobe and a small table) by tram, just make sure not to hit peak hour, get a few friends to help you.

We went to buy it in the late evening, to avoid commuters, in the end, the tram was still crowded, as it was a saturday evening, but meh.

I think they did this on The Chaser, trying to bring a bunch of furniture on a bus

Also in Melbourne I've seen a guy bring a motor scooter on a train a couple times.

> Partly because of racism and because of class. Most caucasians prefer using the cars because they fear that using public transportation will perceive them as poor, despite saving money on transportation.

Au contraire, riding "public transportation" projects an aura of "green" save-the-planet liberalism that liberals love.

>Public transport is perceived by those who can afford using a car as transportation for poor people.

I lived in a city for twelve years, and rode "public transportation" for most of them. It's crowded, uncomfortable, noisy, and increasingly dangerous. And you can freeze to death waiting for a bus in the winter, only to find that it's SRO when one actually arrives. No one who has an alternative would willingly use "public transportation."

> Now for the racism argument, poor people= ethnic minorities.

Now for the logical, rational argument. "Ethnic minorities" = dimwitted, violent, loudmouthed darkies, with the brains of a five-year-old and a strong tendency to uncontrollable hairtrigger violence. And they know damn well that Whites will be too terrified of being called "racists" to object, let alone do anything about it.

>>159123
>Now for the logical, rational argument. "Ethnic minorities" = dimwitted, violent, loudmouthed darkies, with the brains of a five-year-old and a strong tendency to uncontrollable hairtrigger violence. And they know damn well that Whites will be too terrified of being called "racists" to object, let alone do anything about it.
I would agree. It is a hell of a lot easier to pay $30 to park for a few hours than to deal with the problem.

>>159123

Your post reminded me of this.

>>159123
Which city did you lived at?

Ann Arbor has two bus systems: the free blue university buses which go around the central and north campuses and the white city buses that I have to pay a fare to ride but go to meijer's ypsilanti, etc.

I don't mind the blue buses since I share the ride with mostly college students who keep to themselves, but the city buses sometimes have ypsi-niggers who smell like shit.

>Why are white folk afraid to ride public transportation?
Its an American thing (excepting NYC pretty much). In Europe, Canada, and Australia white people certainly don't mind taking transit.

>>159469

In America is is socially and legally acceptable for a minority to attack and kill a white person "cause dey be owed it" so when "whitey" rides da train or da bus he gets mugged, beaten, sodomized, and even gets his shoes stolen. Why do you think Epic Bead Man attracted so many youtube views? People saw a craKKKer beating the shit out of a ground ape and rejoiced for 40 years of negro oppression seemed, even for just one day, to be lifted.