The Bus Stops

Stupid voters in my hometown of Nashville approved a multi-billion dollar transportation plan with much of the focus dedicated to improving municipal buses. The Nashvillians who voted "yes" must not realize the more grandiose and expensive the government project is, the more potential there is for graft, kickbacks, and payoffs. That is horrible enough but since the election just two weeks back (November 5), there have been two murders at Nashville bus stops. This crime wave does not particularly seem like a selling point for Metro mass transit. I don't think a great slogan to improve ridership is "when you avail yourselves of our bus line, your chances of being murdered are less than one in a thousand", or "ride with us, you might even survive the return trip".