LRT Safety

[_urbanite]

Warrants issued for 1 in violent LRT assault, police still trying to identify 3 other suspects

64 year old man assaulted and robbed by thugs at Churchill Station

 

[IanO]

Took pops to the hockey game yesterday afternoon.

Both times we went by The Bay/ESQ 104st LRT entrances they had 2-3 people actively smoking meth and totally blocking the stairs. Single ladies were seeing this and turning away looking for another option.

This continues to be FAR too regular, without consequence or reprieve and continues to push regular folks away from using LRT.

 

[edm13]

Took pops to the hockey game yesterday afternoon.

Both times we went by The Bay/ESQ 104st LRT entrances they had 2-3 people actively smoking meth and totally blocking the stairs. Single ladies were seeing this and turning away looking for another option.

This continues to be FAR too regular, without consequence or reprieve and continues to push regular folks away from using LRT.

And I repeat, military guy with rifle… move it along crack heads

 

[Clearshades]

Took pops to the hockey game yesterday afternoon.

Both times we went by The Bay/ESQ 104st LRT entrances they had 2-3 people actively smoking meth and totally blocking the stairs. Single ladies were seeing this and turning away looking for another option.

This continues to be FAR too regular, without consequence or reprieve and continues to push regular folks away from using LRT.

They have smoked smeth in the train.

 

[The_Cat]

With the warm weather here, I think vulnerable persons should not be allowed in transit vehicles or transit property.

 

[IanO]

Public spaces are public spaces and I'm absolutely fine with vulnerable people being there like anyone else, BUT there needs to be zero tolerance on drug use, blocking of passageways, loitering and any gang related activity.

 

[The_Cat]

I agree most vulnerable people are harmless, but criminals accompany them.

 

[ChazYEG]

I agree most vulnerable people are harmless, but criminals accompany them.

The thing is, forbidding vulnerable people from being in these places is at the very least, treating them as a different class of citizens, and essentially punishing all of them because our security forces are too incompetent to actually address the criminals. A harmless vulnerable person should not have to pay the price for a criminal.

 

[Glenco]

One vulnerable person, 3, 12, 30? How many before it becomes an issue like the encampments? There is a reason they brought back the loitering bylaws and they should be enforced.

 

[Garneau2Go]

Strongly consider the absolute public relations and legal nightmare if officers start just kicking out anyone who looks vaguely poor from transit stations at gunpoint.

There’s a middle ground here by having cctv monitor and dispatch, having turnstiles and enforcement of bylaws. Why that seems to not being done is beyond me.

 

[Glenco]

Telling someone to move along after they have been there a half hour or so is not a gun point.

 

[SarcasticMarmot]

And I repeat, military guy with rifle… move it along crack heads

Telling someone to move along after they have been there a half hour or so is not a gun point.

Gunpoint is pretty strongly implied in edm13's post.

The big problem is move it along to where? With Boyle, Bissell, Mustard Seed, and Jasper Place drop in's all closed where do you expect people to go? Chase them out of the LRT and they are going to end up in the entrance ways of businesses. Businesses lock down their entrances (which we all complain about) and then they end up in residential lots. Enforcement is expensive wack a mole.

 

[edm13]

Gunpoint is pretty strongly implied in edm13's post.

The big problem is move it along to where? With Boyle, Bissell, Mustard Seed, and Jasper Place drop in's all closed where do you expect people to go? Chase them out of the LRT and they are going to end up in the entrance ways of businesses. Businesses lock down their entrances (which we all complain about) and then they end up in residential lots. Enforcement is expensive wack a mole.

Yes we know they will end up else where, but at this point, almost anywhere else is more tolerable than our public transit

 

[SarcasticMarmot]

Yes we know they will end up else where, but at this point, almost anywhere else is more tolerable than our public transit

You say that but they set up in empty fields and abandoned lots and that was deemed intolerable and requiring of police intervention.

 

[Glenco]

You say that but they set up in empty fields and abandoned lots and that was deemed intolerable and requiring of police intervention.

So the solution then is let them hang out in the subway stations as long as they don’t block the staircases?