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0 pointsbrightlancer4y ago0 comments

"Crime rates go up and the homeless population shoots up, they say, when they add a bus stop next to your neighborhood."

Setting aside questions of morality, what part of that is factually incorrect?

In places where driving a car is more convenient than taking mass transit (almost everywhere in the US), mass transit is primarily used by persons who cannot afford to own a car. If a mass transit stop is added to a neighborhood which did not previously have one, that means poorer individuals and families can now live there (or visit there). There are known correlations between poverty (including homelessness) and crime, so it is logical that adding a mass transit stop will increase crime over time.

Why is that incorrect?

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oblio4y ago

Because it's a tragedy of the commons.

You're all focusing on the low level details while you're destroying the urban fabric of your cities and towns and housing is becoming super expensive that you end up with those masses of homeless people you then try to avoid by tearing down bus stops (or not building them in the first place).

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oblio4y ago

Because it's a tragedy of the commons.

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