Clive D. W. Feather wrote:

In article , Paul Corfield
writes
I've had almost the same reaction on telling people I went on the Subway
in New York to Brooklyn. "You did what? Do you know how dangerous that
is?"
"Err, I am standing here and am still alive to tell the tale. It wasn't
that bad."

I had something similar some years ago from a New Yorker friend:

"What did you do yesterday evening?"
I tell him
"You rode ... on the subway ... for *FUN*?!?!"

[I had a local enthusiast as a guide, but I'd got to NY for both
evenings via local train in New Jersey and then PATH.]

It might have been what they considered your odd choice of leisure
activity, rather than concerns for your personal security, that
elicited that type of response!


I think it adds to the experience to travel
about how the residents do - the Tokyo rail system is certainly an
experience ;-)

Very true. And then there's the Bucuresti trams. And, some years ago,
the Leningrad trolleybuses. 4 kopeks flat fare, with an "honesty box"
for payment.


Did you manage to gauge how honest passengers were?