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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Okay. Williamsburg isn’t a normal suburb. It has two large categories of people taking the bus because they can’t drive or don’t have cars— WM students and the elderly. My DC is home on break and I just asked if the Williamsburg bus system was unsafe, inefficient, etc and she looked at me like I was nuts. “No, it’s great. You know I take it everywhere, right?” says a DMV kid. [/quote]

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