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Light Rail Transit + Urban Blight = Higher Crime?
By Wally on Dec 30, 2008 | In Politics, Va Beach | Send feedback »
I can imagine what Virginia Beach light rail advocates are saying right about now after reading the editorial title. “Where is this going?”
Light Rail and the criminal element (outside of the political advocates)!
Urbanization that includes rapid transit can, in the long run, lead to undesirable consequences. One can look at a large city like New York or a relatively small one like Gresham, Oregon.
Gresham, a council-manager form of government, population 100,000 lies to the east of Portland. It is the fourth largest city in Oregon. Gresham is serviced with eight of 27 stations of metropolitan Portland’s MAX Blue Line. The Blue Line was opened in 1986.
