Public transit can be a pain sometimes. Train and bus riders are regularly faced with long routes, crowded subway cars, and stink-eyed beggars mean mugging from the across the aisle. We can almost assume at this point that subway cars ship with flickering lights overhead and the stench of urine already permeating the air. It all comes standard with public transit. 

While we expect regular run-ins with trouble, 2012 saw a few particularly brutal incidents that made our common commuting woes seem like a breeze. Here are the worst of them: 15 heinous mass transit attacks that occurred in 2012.

Written by Faiz Siddiqui ()

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