Toward a Sociology of Public Transit

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Short trips on public transit frequently exhibit stressful sociological characteristics. Passengers tend to view the vehicles as mono-instrumental conveyances and to evince a pronounced exit-orientation; but transit arrangements rarely facilitate an equitable order in departing. Severe limits on what one can see and whom one can look at further reduce the joy of riding. The folklore of public transit reinforces its situational deficiencies. Some unusual modes of transit do escape these difficulties; in the main, though, transit riders engage in various small conflicts and in low-level, but persistent and focused, games of anticipation.

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