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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, my 3 now 4 year old takes field trips all the time. I’m tagging along on one, via Metro, next week. To be honest,  I’m more worried when they take the school’s bus on field trips than Metro. It’s fine, people. [/quote]

+1. as someone posted upthread, metro has had very few fatalities ever on its existence.  I’d be more worried about having the kids in a car or a bus.  My kids have always enjoyed riding metro, and if I see a kid having a problem on metro it’s usually because the kid is hungry and the parent didn’t have a snack available.[/quote]
Well that's comforting, very few fatalities! What about getting hurt or separated? Or just ignored because there's too much going on.[/quote]

Yes really very few fatalities - as is so few that in 42 years you can count them on two hands and one foot.  Which is about the number of people who die in this region every single week in traffic accidents.  But keep worrying about the wrong things.

And not sure why a kid would get hurt?  I've been public transit reliant for 26 years and have never seen someone get hurt - I've seen plenty of funky things and occassionally some dirty things but never saw an injury.

And I've never gotten separated from my child or otherwise seen it happen.

But you keep worrying - I guarantee every time you drive, park and walk in to your suburban McDonald's with a kid in tow that it is more dangerous than any trip on public transit, with or without a kid.[/quote]

This.  As for the worries about getting hurt or separated or being ignored, that could happen in any setting where there are more kids than adults, but somehow most of us let our kids go on field trips.[/quote]

Sorry, as someone who lives in the city without a car and takes my 2 toddlers on metro all the time, the people defending the 4:1 ratio of 3 yr olds to adults are being way too cavalier about safety. Try all you want to deflect by talking about fat suburban SUV driving moms, it doesn’t change the reality.[/quote]

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