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Why it’s so hard to keep America’s public transit riders safe

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By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Wearing earbuds and a T-shirt for the pizzeria where she worked, Iryna Zarutska took a seat on a Charlotte light rail train one night last month and stared down at the screen of her phone on what was supposed to be an ordinary commute home. Similar scenes play out countless times a day on transit systems in cities across the country – where riders go about their routines even as problems like homelessness, untreated m…

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By Ray Sanchez, CNN Wearing headphones and wearing a T-shirt from the pizza place where she worked, Iryna Zarutska sat down on a Charlotte light rail train one night last month and looked at her phone screen on what should have been a normal commute home. Similar scenes play out daily on transit systems across the country, where riders go about their routines while issues like homelessness, untreated mental illness and unpredictable attacks unde…

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