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[Kenneth and Tracie Josephson]

Vigrass, Bill wrote:

> The police looked in
> the bag he was carrying, and found silverware and other objects stolen from
> local dwellings.  With both members of a household working in many cases,
> houses are empty during the day so are a tempting target.  In this case,
> poetic justice was metted out.
> 
> When the southern end of the Baltimore LRT line opened, there was a rash of
> juveniles riding the cars out to suburban areas and stealing bicycles.

So it can happen. But I wonder if the same youths would have taken a bus
in the bicycle case. I could go off on a rant about mixing transit
projects with "social engineering" but I won't. But I will make this
notataion: IMO, as long as there is a belief that all new rail transit
projects must link the neighborhoods of the "haves" and the "have nots"
together, the NIMBYs will always have this argument to use. Ken J.