Choo-choo advocates say that another public benefit of the laughably expensive things is that they’re good for the community, thanks to the communal wonders of people being crammed together (they are hastily presuming the crammed-together part):
Clifford, who retired as a police sergeant after 10 years on the job, said Tuesday he had been arrested eight times after being accused of throwing coffee, spewing expletives and getting in the faces of people whom he considered loud and rude on the commuter line. This was the only case that wasn’t dismissed.
“It took a lawyer and an old ex-police sergeant to stand up to it (public rudeness),” Clifford, of Long Beach, said as he left court. He said that unless lawmakers and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority do something, the lack of public civility will persist.
