Route 405 Route Change Due to Vandalism

[Dark Serge]

Apparently DART has had to stop service to a part of their 405 bus route after 8 PM due to people throwing rocks and such at the bus...

http://transportationblog.dallasnews...rt-to-dro.html

I'm puzzled by this more than anything. Have the residents of that area shown resistance to having a bus go through their neighborhood before, or do y'all think this is this more of a case of mischievous youth? Heck, the post mentions that route changes have happened in the past for similar reasons. Do people really hate buses that much or is this random violence?

[mtanoct]

It can be just a case of random violence...pranks if you will. One would hope it is not some inner hatred for the bus running through their community. In my hometown, there were a few bus routes that were re-routed from the inner portions of a few neighborhoods due to potential for certain issues...so I can see this as possible.

[electricron]

It can be just a case of random violence...pranks if you will. One would hope it is not some inner hatred for the bus running through their community. In my hometown, there were a few bus routes that were re-routed from the inner portions of a few neighborhoods due to potential for certain issues...so I can see this as possible.

Get real. That neighborhood is so bad that even DART's bus drivers don't want to be in it after dark. I'm surprised the bus drivers will drive in it during daylight.

There used to be large grocery stores in bad Dallas neighborhoods, but they closed down and left because patrons and employees car tires were slashed on multiple occasions. Where there's a lack of respect for property, it's a bad neighborhood.

[Anthony]

Same thing (rocks being thrown) happens on the 51 along Washington.

[CasperITL]

It can be just a case of random violence...pranks if you will.

Thirty different times? Including a bus driver being injured is not random.

Those apartments are really bad. Last year the police SWAT team went door to door in one of those complexes and arrested a number of people for all kinds of crimes.

The age of the residents there is very young. Lots of teenagers and twenty somethings. There are also two schools nearby that could add to the problem. If they are school age residents doing it, I can understand how their idle hands can become the devil's handiwork. There is not much to do there and they are isolated from the rest of Dallas.

If Wonderview ever gets off the ground with the sports facilities for young people of South Dallas I think alot of this kind of thing will go away.

[mtanoct]

Well lets hope for that...its important that the youth have those opportunities to do some positive...

[mtanoct]

Get real. That neighborhood is so bad that even DART's bus drivers don't want to be in it after dark. I'm surprised the bus drivers will drive in it during daylight.

There used to be large grocery stores in bad Dallas neighborhoods, but they closed down and left because patrons and employees car tires were slashed on multiple occasions. Where there's a lack of respect for property, it's a bad neighborhood.

And that is really unfortunate...I have lived in many cities and see many places where there was some lack of respect for property...so I understand where you are coming from. I also have seen places like that and where people had some respect for public transportation traveling through their neighborhood as well...

Its bad...and if there is no one using that route in that neighborhood...maybe it should be discontinued in that area.