[Uncle Lonny]

In some respects mass transit from big cities to the suburbs is like section 8 housing projects built in the suburbs. Crime rates can spike when they happen.

[tanknetter]

In some respects mass transit from big cities to the suburbs is like section 8 housing projects built in the suburbs. Crime rates can spike when they happen.

Indeed, when the Metro Green Line (servicing the U-St Corridor and the city South of the Anacostia River) opened there was a big spike - too big for the city, Metro and MSM to ignore. The most blatant case was a clerk working at the Hudson Trail Outfitters in Tenleytown who was robbed then killed via execution-style double-tap by thugs who'd made it up there via the Red Line.

We'll see what happens with the Silver Line. Any spike might end up being successfully masked and suppressed because Fairfax already has a fair numbers of issues out that way with Asian and Latino (MS13 is seriously active in Herndon, the area around South Lakes High School - which is near Reston and Fair Oaks Mall) gangs.