Originally Posted by
sheddle
It's an actual studied phenomenon that the people most scared of crime are people who live in areas with very little crime. It's one of those things that has effects like not building trails or transit lines to rural zero-crime areas because some local politician riles up the local voters about how all the "urban criminals" will apparently use them to come to Haverbock to do crimes or something.
That very thing happened in S. Jersey when a new light rail line was being proposed from Trenton south, passing through Camden, which has a lot of crime. Many communities south of Camden opposed the project due to fears of an increase in crime coming from Camden, among other reasons. As a result, the line was built between Trento and Camden only. The service exceeded ridership estimates from the git go and spawned redevelopment and increased property values in the towns it passes through. A lot of people south of Camden now want the line extended.