Public Transit == Crime
I just received a very nice info-pack through my front door regarding the new
Dublin Metro
line, which is
in planning at the moment; it seems they’re soliciting feedback from residents
near the proposed routes. Nicely done.
Right now, Dublin has an embarrassment of good public transit, at least when
compared to my previous home in Orange County. There, public transit is actively campaigned against.
My favourite claim: that it ‘increases
crime’ — in other words that poor
people from Santa Ana would come down to Irvine and steal stuff, which they
couldn’t do with vehicular transport, for some reason.
The OC Weekly thought
it was pretty funny, too — and an opposing group comprehensively debunked
it. Still, it seemed to work;
while I was living in Irvine, I got to see the Centerline proposal gradually
whittled down until it was finally killed off. During that time, in contrast,
Dublin built the Luas.
Unfortunately it doesn’t exactly go where I want to go, but you can’t always
have everything. 
This post was written by Justin, source: Public Transit == Crime
