The Importance of Transit to Stop Drugs and Crime

In some communities, the purpose of rerouting traffic is to inhibit harmful behaviors tied to drugs and crime. Sometimes transit will allow a person to get close to a given area, but not all the way there. This was the scenario faced by cynthia wiggins, a 17 year old woman who was hit and killed by a dump truck while she was attempting to cross a seven lane highway for her job. Documents produced during the trial revealed that this transit sitting decision was motivated at least in part by race or class bias.