Originally Posted by
WRCSolberg
Again, take this from someone who rides it on a daily basis through some not so nice areas - the Metrolink is for the most part, safe. There is at least one security guard on *every* platform, day and night, and there are regular patrols on the trains themselves. You can get mugged walking down the street here, citing a few newspaper articles about crime on ML doesn't prove much.
Let's put it like this, if my 120 lb, late 50 something mom has no problem riding it, neither should you.
Well last trip to STL my friend told me "take a taxi, it's faster and safe." When I go to ZRH, MUC, FRA, MXP, GVA, ORD, NRT, HKG the advice is always "take the train, it's faster and cheaper."
In terms of crime even if we want to use worst case areas we are talking about 1 in 1000 type odds. That said - the latter mentioned trains not only don't have consistent reports of criminal activity they "feel safer" at least to me.
That said, I do realize there is crime everywhere. My point to Blumie was it is out of line to ask people as he did if the reason they felt unsafe was "do the people look different than you." I really don't care what they look like - when there is a group/gang of five to 10 teenagers running through cars jumping up and down on the seats and slamming doors and making running up to people then to the next car I really don't like that environment - again no matter their skin color, hair style or number of piercings. One person said they felt unsafe - they are entitled to their opinion as are the hundreds of thousands of people who ride the STL MRT each year. No need to try and demean somebody else.