How do you convince suburb-dwellers that light rail can be safe and enjoyable?
"The problem, he said, is that light rail is 'public' transit, and the public includes a great variety of people, some not so clean, some not so well-mannered.
People have the right to be what and who they are in public, Sakauye says.
He agrees that odd-acting passengers definitely make others ill at ease, and even cause some people to feel unsafe..."
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
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