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The general assertion that mass transit brings crime is very common but isn't supported by evidence [0]. Not to mention the prejudicial undertones it carries..

• ip26 8y ago
  Thanks for the link. Perhaps my core mistake here is speaking from a context of rail freight, when this is really about mass transit.
• 80386 8y ago
  I live in Boston. The Orange Line mostly runs through neighborhoods you wouldn't want to go to at night (or even in broad daylight), but recently they put in a new stop with a lot of development aimed at the upper middle class. Assembly is within walking distance from Sullivan, but somehow the crime doesn't bleed over. I did live for a few years in an... exurban, if not quite rural, Southern county that had been successfully resisting commuter rail for a long time, but I think that was about keeping the yuppies out as much as anything else. And it's hard to object to that. I was there for college, and a lot of both the professors and the students came in from the Northeast and hated the townies. (I went the opposite direction - grew up around there and then figured I'm in the same country as the Yanks and may as well go see what they're about.)