LRT Safety

[erudyk_29]

Safe consumption sites are a good step. Too bad the province got rid of them.

I am not a fan of the optics of them, but as a transit user, since they were removed, I've noticed a significant increase in people just doing drugs out in the open in transit stops and other places. To me safe consumption sites are preferable to that.

 

[trevorhayden]

600 to 1700 shelter beds is cool. Except that homelessness in Edmonton has now passed 5,000 people.

 

[Gronk!]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1887328794349809769

 

[MacLac]

Don’t let Trump’s Economic advisor see this……police making an arrest……avert your eyes……doesn’t happen in the US

 

[trevorhayden]

Why is the swat team called in to simply tell a drug user to move along?

 

[Kosy123]

Corona and Churchill usually are the busiest but with the most incidents like these. Churchill's been better in peak hours due to the constant TPO presence, and at this rate we're probably going to have to just opt for TPO presence in all downtown stations as a band-aid solution.

 

[IanO]

Bay stairs are particularly bad to the point of awful on a regular basis. Multiple days a week you literally cannot pass by the folks on the stairs with pipes...

 

[erudyk_29]

I find Central to be consistently the worst, the upper concourse almost always has a few people doing drugs in the corners, deals going down, etc.

 

[Kosy123]

Safe consumption sites are a good step. Too bad the province got rid of them.

I am not a fan of the optics of them, but as a transit user, since they were removed, I've noticed a significant increase in people just doing drugs out in the open in transit stops and other places. To me safe consumption sites are preferable to that.

I've made this point multiple times before but I attended a seminar back in 2019 in the U of A where they specifically stated that shutting down SCS sites would lead to drug consumption being more public in the city. It's literally been predicted and yet we act surprised that this is happening in the city.

I find Central to be consistently the worst, the upper concourse almost always has a few people doing drugs in the corners, deals going down, etc.

Yeah Central is pretty bad too. I think a significant chunk of this is just how bad our station designs are, with a lot of "hidden" passageways and corners too. At the end of the day, for a stopgap solution, we're literally just going to need TPO presence in downtown stations and constant patrols, especially during the winter.

 

[erudyk_29]

I think a significant chunk of this is just how bad our station designs are, with a lot of "hidden" passageways and corners too.

100%, CPTED seems to have not been considered at all in the early station designs.

 

[Barnaby]

Why is the swat team called in to simply tell a drug user to move along?

That isn't the swat team. Those rifles have essentially replaced shotguns as the firearm in most squad cars.

 

[Offworld]

100%, CPTED seems to have not been considered at all in the early station designs.

The stations were designed in the 70s, yes? A different time perhaps.

 

[David A]

I've made this point multiple times before but I attended a seminar back in 2019 in the U of A where they specifically stated that shutting down SCS sites would lead to drug consumption being more public in the city. It's literally been predicted and yet we act surprised that this is happening in the city.

Yeah Central is pretty bad too. I think a significant chunk of this is just how bad our station designs are, with a lot of "hidden" passageways and corners too. At the end of the day, for a stopgap solution, we're literally just going to need TPO presence in downtown stations and constant patrols, especially during the winter.

When I went through the Bay Station yesterday afternoon I noticed few problems even though it was still quite cold out. I wasn't there in the morning today, so not sure if today was a much worse day for some reason.

Yes, the security people are not able to deal with some of the problems so I can see needing to have TPO there more instead.

 

[Greenspace]

600 to 1700 shelter beds is cool. Except that homelessness in Edmonton has now passed 5,000 people.

2998 provisionally accommodated
757 in shelters
1242 unsheltered

Point-in-time count, December 2024

| Homeward Trust Edmonton: Ending Homelessness

Homeward Trust provides support for those experiencing homelessness in Edmonton. Ending homelessness is achievable and within our reach.

homewardtrust.ca

 

[trevorhayden]

That isn't the swat team. Those rifles have essentially replaced shotguns as the firearm in most squad cars.

Jeezus. EPS have way too much money