4th: I am going to be paying close attention when more details are announced on this one for a few reasons.:

I put one of those bells on my bike a few weeks ago. It’s an absolute gem. It even shuts up barking/batshit crazy dogs.

Yep, that’s cool. ‘Twas a good weekend conversation. Enjoy your holidays.

I have actually been to Kansas City (both of them, lol) and it is nice. You are totally correct that it is a whole different ball game than Boston. 

Fine! lol. I’m not gonna go down the rabbit hole of validity in experiments involving Anthro/Socio. I’ll give you that they can be quite valid.

Thanks for your contribution!

Well, no one really. However, that is a way different issue than compliance to a terms-of-use agreement. 

Sure. I have no doubt that ridership would increase. I also believe that disruptive behavior would increase. Now, whether it increases simply as a total number of incidents due to volume or proportionally based on incidents per “x”number of riders, that would be of interest. I’d think it’d be both, but I can’t say…

Dennis’s reviews are always as if Debbie Downer was a real person. He really can’t go more than 3 paragraphs without injecting his personal world view stamp on anything and everything. I like to read them because they are way more funny than what he actually finds funny. It’ll never not be amusing to read a person’s…

First, I will say thanks for making a writing a detailed response, so I will return as such. Off the top, I wasn’t sure we were talking about Drivers or the “Fare Collectors” (whatever that means), so that was the confusion there. Anyway (I’m not gonna quote line by line but I’ll partition it.)...

That may be true, but Vienna is a long way from Boston in a whole bunch of ways. It’s not a fair comparison.

I’ve lived it. It was, in some ways, a part of my job for over a decade in NYC. I’m not sure what you mean by “operators”, but that’s not really the point anyway.

I respectfully disagree wholeheartedly. I don’t need to go to San Fran for that. It most certainly does have a deterring effect to a segment of any applicable group of “fare evaders.” Something is better than nothing.

It depends on your definition of security. If nothing else, they provide a deterrent to those that are shady enough to be actively avoiding a confrontation or attempting to stay off of any radar. Those people tend to escalate situations to the point where real enforcement becomes needed anyway.

The NYPD aren’t allowed to do anything about anything anymore. It might change now that Big Bird is leaving, but for the time being they are following the same policy as what occurred in Detroit in the 1980's/90's. The cost of actually engaging and preventing crime far outweighs the risk. They are instructed to…

Be careful what you wish for...

That’s a great idea in theory, but there are associated costs. One would be the need for additional security/police presence of some sort. A lone bus driver can only do so much when an either mentally ill or someone under the influence refuses to leave a warm bus on a winter night. When things are free it takes away…

“No previous generation is more civil or smarter than what we have now. The only difference is the level in which you see people outside the incredibly small circle everyone lived in those 30 years ago.”

Sure there was. The difference between even 30 years ago and now is that there was a time when an education, or some sort of earned status through merit, was required to garner a voice. This is no longer the case. Now...We have Social Media, where any idiot can get global traction and even “influence” cultures in some…

That’s a legit “just got served divorce papers” vibe.