To the editor: I've lived in the L.A. area since 2007 and have been a champion of public transit. Yet, in the last five years, I've seen the degradation throughout the system as reported in your recent articles on Metro safety. Yes, we have to make our bus drivers and other personnel safe. But we're also dealing with a problem occasioned by our nation's failure to deal with poverty. As more and more people become homeless, drug-addicted, frightened and broken, violence grows. We can't make life... Read this story
