Stunning ignorance
This woman just doesn't get it about mass transit.
There has been a lot of debate lately about the cost and future utilization of the Metro light-rail system. What concerns me is I never see any discussion about the personal safety risks.
You're more likely to be smashed to bits on the expressway by a drunken driver than on a train.
I would dearly love to see the statistics from all of those cities with: light rail, elevated trains and/or subways, for muggings, assaults, rapes, and murders.
New York City is both the most transit-dependent and
safest large city in America. You must have watched
The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 too many times.
I am a middle-aged woman, and I do not intend to set foot on any form of mass transit until my personal safety concerns have been resolved.
Good. If you ever come to D.C., I don't want do deal with you on the Metro, blocking the door, hugging the rail so I have nothing to hold, blocking the escalator because you're scared of the incline.
There is a reason the New York subway system has its own police department. And it is not to catch litterbugs.
-Brennda Gibbs, Glendale
It doesn't and hasn't for a decade. You're safer in the subway then you are on the street in a lot of neighborhoods.
See, this is the sort of ignorance that transit advocates have to deal with every day. I'm surprised the Arizona Republic ran this letter, considering the factual errors.
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rj3 | 12:28 PM |
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Let me tell you, last March I spent a week using the subway in Mexico City. I wasn't the only white person on the car; I was the only white person on the TRAIN. I never once felt unsafe. I always feel unsafe when travelling in town by car. On transit you are unlikely to be killed by some moron who isn't paying attention.
Well, Dru Sjodin wasn't walking to a bus stop when she disappeared in North Dakota a couple of months ago; she was walking to her car in the shopping mall parking lot in broad daylight. (http://www.finddru.com/)
Good god, doesn't this AZ woman ever leave her house? (But even then, someone might break in!!!)
you guys are all missing the point. i live in new york city right now, and you must remember that people here aren't very smart. it's an island so i don't think they get outside the city very much.
WTF is that supposed to mean?
