we all love transit and urbanism here, but it's time to discuss the elephant in the room, and the main impediment to seeing our goals realized:

>the urbaN passenger question.
you know what I mean

realistically what can be done about this? rent a cop on every bus and subway car? brining back public corporal punishment? something exotic like microwave pain emitters?

I'm being 100% serious and unironic. How do we solve this issue? other countries public transit aren't as dangerous and dysfunctional as ours