Location Transport - Do you think public transportation should be segregated by class, criminal record, or race?

Do you think public transportation should be segregated by class, criminal record, or race?

I think many would be willing to pay extra to sit in a bus or subway full of clean, normal people. In San Francisco, for instance, the buses are essentially rolling drug shooting galleries or thug transport or houses of prostitution on wheels. It would be nice to get away from the profanity, the vulgarity, the nudity, and the stinky people using drugs. I think a barrier with respectable people in front should separate the people in the back (druggies, prostitutes, people carrying live chickens, screaming illegal brats,etc.) who should also have an armed guard with them. The lowlifes never pay anyway so they could ride for free and the people in first class could pay $5 or more and would gladly do so, I think. I believe this would be best for all concerned.

Public Comments

dear god. if we did that, we would be going COMPLETELY backward--to the pre-civil rights era. how horrible and racist.
How the hell would that be public transportation, if more than half the public can't get on? I think you should call your idea, seperatist bullhonkey transportation. or maybe if you are too good to sit by your fellow human beings you should get a car!!!
I don't mean to sound rude! However if you don't like the bus drive a car, carpool with some coworkers or something. But once you start here just think if you kept it going.....Parks for people with incomes over 50k a year only. Toll Roads for blacks but whites can drive for free. THIS IS AMERICA!! The Land of the free!!! We can do what we please to a certain extent and by gosh we should do everything we can to protect those privilages!! Don't get me wrong I completely understand and respect you point but the only way to do that would be to create a private upscale paid bus system. Thats my .02 Cents worth. AMERICA!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
As for racial segregation in public transportation, I'm for it: let's put stupid elitist white people in the wheel well or hang them outside with the bikes. As for criminal record, how would you propose to do a background check on everyone who rode the buses, BART, or trolleys? As for class, do we have "class" in this country? Or did that concept go out of vogue after we kicked the British out? Charging a premium price for a "first class" section is a more interesting concept. Sure, why not? I gotta think that the market wouldn't bear it. Here's an example. Ever ride the monorail in Las Vegas? It's stupidly expensive -- like $8+ per ride. If you have a group of 3 or 4, it's much cheaper to ride a taxi. I think the people who could afford to pay for a first class ticket would cease to use public transportation altogether if the price were set high enough to discourage "lowlifes" from sitting in their section.
that does exist... its called a taxi! there you get your own car to take you where you want to go. people take the bus because they cannot afford a car or a taxi. how many people do you think would have the money to pay $5 for a single trip? taking at least two trips a day, five days a week... that is $50 a week. and that is $200 a month... that is a car payment. it may not be a new car or a fully loaded car but at least its a car. so your idea does not make financial sence and would not work. i would save the money you would pay to have a "first class" bus ticket and get your own car. and i am not even touching the racial and bias views that your post brings up.
Wow, you live in S.F? One of the major melting pots in the U.S. Your lucky you don't spout your racial B.S. in public. You would get your ass kicked big time.
in this day and age your array of suggestions is out dated and far too costly. i do empathize with you about the unsightly and hideous onslaught of clientele. it isn't as evident everywhere so it would be hard for some people to fathom the problem. when drugs/substance abuse is involved, therein lies the problem. if there were solutions for this element that seems epidemic in large portions of the world. when something infiltrates and permeates unseen, the problem is not detected until too late. sure you see the filthy unsightly street druggie in public. those people might very well have been pillars of society in their initial communities. by the time anyone realized that they were in need of rescue, it was too late. maybe you could alert people of these problems and devise solutions to rescue these people killing themselves with substance abuse. it would be a place to start.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.