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LRT Safety

It's also not how Transit Security works. It's a combination of Transit Police Officers (TPOs), social service agencies like Bent Arrow (COTT teams), private security, campus security and sometimes EPS. And making sure everyone is working together. They try very hard to divert people away from being arrested if possible to get the help they need.

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Isn't the whole point of low floor trains that they're more accessible, integrated into their surroundings, and easy for people to use? Ridiculous!

That Mill Woods station, where the bus connection dumps you into the centre of the LRT platform is just an invitation to walk straight across the tracks. I've done it
 
I don't know if I agree with this. So fare paying passengers not only have to worry about their safety or being exposed to drugs being cooked on transit, they have to worry about being fined $250 for a no harm no foul situation? Put a fence up if they don't want people crossing the tracks.
 
Of course when we send the cops out to enforce the rules the first thing they do is start looking for jaywalkers. THOSE DANG JAYS ARE AT IT AGAIN!

If they don't want people to cross the tracks, then don't lay out a red carpet baiting people to cross the tracks. The platform at Millwoods especially, it's basically an open invitation.
Put up some barriers or railings that guide people to the designated crossing location.
or tell the cops not to ticket people for this sort of thing unless it's creating an actual safety risk. (eg: in front of a moving train)
 
I'm not sure where to fall on this one. If it's not ever enforced then people just make a habit of doing it and maybe at some point it turns into a injury or death. With low floor streetcar like systems and no barriers I wouldn't have really expected there to be a rule against crossing the tracks but don't know enough to speak competently on it.
 
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I'm not sure where to fall on this one. If it's not ever enforced then people just make a habit of doing it and maybe at some point it turns into a injury or death. With low floor streetcar like systems and no barriers I wouldn't have really expected there to be a rule against crossing the tracks but don't know enough to speak competently on it.
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If they are going to do this, which I don't love, was there a period of time where warnings were given out first at least?
 
Ticketing people for doing this literally is the antithesis to what this system is designed to be….

This is insane…. Are you telling me
that people along 83rd street cant cross the road in their community because there are tracks there now. Get a grip.
 
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