In spite of the huge investment of time & money in creating Edmonton's public transit system and police reporting violent crime in Edmonton’s transit centre is down, a recent poll indicates that majority of Edmontonians still do not feel safe using public transit.

Former Edmonton police officer turned criminologist Dan Jones, the Chair of justice studies at NorQuest College thinks the police report number doesn’t tell the whole story.“ He wonders if its crime that’s going down or is it reporting that going down?

When asked to comment on transit safety Mike Ellis, Alberta’s minister of public safety said that perception is reality and his comment must become a major consideration. As long as people perceive that it is unsafe they will hesitate to use public transit which creates a double whammy that must be addressed. Firstly, public transit must be made truly and actually safe and secondly that will have to be proven and communicated in such a way that will change the public's perception. Until that happens "unsafe" will remain in the minds of too many Edmontonians when they think of public transit.