>>1741216Effect of Rail Transit on Crime: A Study of Los Angeles from 1988 to 2014 (Macdonald and Ridgeway, 2014)
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>We find no evidence that transit station openings or disruptions in transit due to strikes result in changes in crime in surrounding neighborhoods.Randomly opening and closing stations had no effect on crime
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/681558>There is often public worry that expanded public transit in cities willbring crime to neighborhoods (Poister 1996).18 After all, public transit
allows individuals who do not own cars to travel longer distances cheaply.
Transit may increase ease of access to criminal opportunities and payoffs
from crime. Expanding bus and rail routes may increase crime in relatively
low-crime areas. However, most research has focused on the built envi-
ronment around transit stops that make them more or less susceptible
to crime, and not on whether the presence of transit itself produces crime.
Studies with quasi-experimental designs provide little evidence that tran-
sit itself is a major generator of crime. Transit expansion may reduce
crime by altering other features of the built environment.
