CaptainBL
Active Member
Its baffling because if one of these individuals walked into any other City institution such as the middle of a rec center, or city hall, or sat down at a Milner library table and lit up or brandished a knife it flat out would not be tolerated. But on the flip side the City seems to not enact or enforce very much when it comes to our Mad Max transit system, which is unfortunate for the people who want to use it and ironically contradictory given the City wants more people to use transit.Again, would someone care to expand on WHY we don't have gated entry and WHY can't the LRT security/Peace Officers/EPS act on this kind of thing?
When you are an innocent transit user taking the LRT and there is immediate dangers or threats, having Peace Officers or security that can enforce, or having paid gates should be an absolute must as a start. Yes, these individuals do need to the social services to help them but that is a longer-term remedial solution to help those individuals. But from the perspective of that transit user who may be experiencing an acute threat of a weapon or someone lighting up, something that seems to be occurring daily, an improvement in social services is not effective in that moment. If someone is threating me with a knife while I take the LRT home at 9pm, my last thought is that these individuals need an improvement in the overall social services. The City needs to start implementing solutions to make riders feel safe if they want ridership to increase to the levels they are expecting.