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[quote user="Phoebe Vet"] That rude behavior has nothing to do with transit.  That is who those people are.  That is the way they behave everywhere they go.  That is why security guards are always trying to chase them out of the mall. Perception of danger at specific places is a direst result of the way it is presented by the ratings driven melodramatic news media.  30,000 people a year die in car accidents but that only gets a passing remark on the news.  But if a car gets hit by a train it will be big news for a week whether or not there are any injuries.  What percentage of the assaults and robberies in Dallas occur at transit facilities? [/quote] The sentence referred to rude behavior on public transit in Dallas. What is it about rude behavior on public transit that leads one to believe that it has nothing to do with transit? Ride the light rail trains in Dallas, as I did for years, and still do on occasion, and you can see for yourself.  Afternoon trains are your best bet. I did not state or imply that the issue was rude behavior elsewhere.  Elsewhere has nothing to do with public transit, especially public transit in Dallas.  DART management cannot do anything about unruly behavior in the school system.  But it can do something about rude behavior on its light rail trains.  And it has!  It has dramatically increased a transit police presence around the stations since the system opened in the mid 1990s.  Unfortunately, given the design of the light rail cars, placing police on them would not be terribly effective.   The Dallas Police Department publishes a map of the crime rates in Dallas.  Have a go!  All you have to do is figure out where the trains run.  And buses!
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