| ▲ | bretthoerner an hour ago | |
| ▲ | alsetmusic an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
I ride BART. I'm two blocks from a busy transfer station. It's great for going to a show and getting home without driving (drunk). Arguing that modern fare gates lowered crime is a pretty terrible response to the comment to which you responded. It shows a real lack of articulation ("crime bad, crime down here, therefore I don't need to refute what you said"). The original poster said: > The guy that committed that murder wasn't going to be deterred by a ticket fee. I don't see how lower crime on BART due to fewer people hopping the turnstiles refutes that at all. (Huh, I just learned turnstiles is spelled with an I and not a Y. At least your comment led to me learning something.) It just seems defeatist, which is what the people looting this country want. | ||
| ▲ | jacquesm an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
You can cut crime all the way down to zero by shutting down all transport. You could decrease it to a very low minimum by setting a $100 / trip fare. But then it wouldn't be public transport anymore. | ||