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[quote=Anonymous]Here's the difference that many posters don't seem to understand. In places where all types of people use public transit on a regular basis (NY, DC, Boston, etc.) it feels normal and safe. In places where almost everyone has a car (even lower income people) the population of people who take busses is very different. I grew up in a suburban area of a mid-sized city. Any time they expanded the bus routes, massive upticks in crime immediately followed. It was like reverse-gentrifying. And nice, safe working class areas that used to be nice places to live, became unsafe for living. And it really stinks for everyone who was previous living/shopping/working in that area. I watched previously vibrant, safe, friendly working class and middle class shopping areas become dangerous and unusable within just a couple of years of the bus route expanding out to it. In areas where most everyone drives, even poor people, busses are really seedy. [/quote]
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