<p>1) How safe is the neighborhood? Is it usually empty or are people around walking even at night?</p>
<p>2) Do you usually walk to campus or take some sort of shuttle?</p>
<p>Safety depends. Most of the time there are people on the street well past 1 am. But then, there was just a mugging on Gayley around midnight last week so I don't know that having people around means anything. There's a serious problem in Westwood with the strightlights and it's generally really, really dark. I was walking on Veteran the other night and there wasn't a working streetlight on our side of the street for several blocks. Generally though if you're in a group it's pretty safe. </p>
<p>Almost everyone who lives in the apartments walk to campus. From the blocks closest to campus it's about 10-15 minutes to ackerman, longer for the further blocks. The shuttles don't even really run through the apartments for the most part, they just stop by the grad housing on Weyburn.</p>
<p>dark streets? mugging? I can't wait :rolleyes:</p>
<p>It's really not that bad if one is careful and makes sure to stay around groups at night. I was reading through the ucpd crime bulletins and the vast majority of incidents happened to people who were walking around by themselves at 2, 3, 4 in the morning. Don't do that and I don't think you'll have much of a problem.</p>
<p>HAHA then is campus safe at 2, 3, 4 in the morning? what makes it any different from westwood</p>
<p>I wouldn't walk around alone anywhere in the middle of the night, but that's just me.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that most places tend to be riskier during the wee hours of the morning, especially if you're alone. Think of it as incentive to do one or more of the following:</p>
<ol>
<li>Work on your running. </li>
<li>Join a martial arts club.</li>
<li>Don't procrastinate, hence removing the need to set up shop in the library a few nights before the midterm.</li>
<li>Get to know the people who live in the same area as you.</li>
<li>Host parties.</li>
</ol>
<p>I live on Landfair and Gayley, I consider it a pretty safe part of town. Granted, I'm from Long Beach, and I'm used to expecting much worse. There aren't really any shootings, gangs, or drug running operations happening around here, so in my mind we're safe. Anytime you have a bunch of young, impressionable college students all together in one area, there will be some people looking to take advantage of that. There's usually a smathering of muggings, car theft, and sexual harrassment cases that happen. I'd just use common sense to avoid them really. I mean walking around at night all alone usually isn't a good idea, especially if you're a girl. If you have a nice car, parking it on the street unprotected generally isn't a good idea either. But I've never ever really felt unsafe living in Westwood.</p>
<p>I always walk to campus, it's not far at all and decent exercise. No bus runs from my place to campus anyway.</p>
<p>I live on Glenrock and it's actually a shorter walk to campus than from Rieber Vista last year. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I lived on Landfair, right by the intersection of Midvale (I think?) and I felt extremely safe walking home at night. Even on the "rape trail."</p>
<p>Muggings happen everywhere, and they're not that common in Westwood.</p>
<p>I feel very safe in westwood. I live on Veteran and have to walk through the rest of the apartments to get to mine when coming from Westwood, and I have no problem walking around late at night by myself (which I do quite often since I'm a night person). Violent crime is pretty low in Westwood and on campus, so you don't have too much to worry about. Just use common sense and you'll be fine.</p>
<p>I just walked from Borders to my apartment on Malcolm and there were barely any streetlights. What gives? Do the dark and mysterious streets add to the property values?</p>
<p>Nope they're just not very well maintained.</p>
<p>It's peculiar how UCLA recently built a row of streetlights right in front of Pauley Pavilion and the Wooden Center, but not around the apartments where they're actually needed. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Yeah the streetlights are really a problem. I live on Levering and there are parts of the street where you could surely trip on the sidewalk because it's so dark...</p>
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<p>um, yeah, theres a pretty good reason for that - the apartments area isn't the property of UCLA - its in LA City property</p>