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LRT Safety

According to my friends at EPS, yes indeed the first call to anybody, whether a fentanyl huncher attempting suicide or any other reason is to the Fire Dept. The EPS are “supposed” to administer Naloxone but rarely do as it is technically “not their job,” spoken line true Union members….lol.
 
MacLac said:
According to my friends at EPS, yes indeed the first call to anybody, whether a fentanyl huncher attempting suicide or any other reason is to the Fire Dept. The EPS are “supposed” to administer Naloxone but rarely do as it is technically “not their job,” spoken line true Union members….lol.
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So its the Fire Department's job instead? I guess their union must be more easy going.
 
Gronk! said:
Overkill at responding to ODs is not a good use of taxpayers' money.
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I understand how the Fire Department gets drawn into this. Fires are not common, but they have to be ready to respond and quickly, so they are basically replacing, duplicating or supplementing the medical responders.

However, this can be detrimental. For instance what if they get a call to a medical incident which they are responding to and a fire happens and they are delayed in responding to that?
 
On Friday I had to call Transit Watch twice within an hour for two different situations at the top of stairs of Bay LRT on 104st south of Jasper.

1. 3 individuals smoking and blocking the stairs, definitely NOT transit users who would have made that passing very uncomfortable for actual users.
2. a guy totally out of his mind yelling at transit users and who the F knows what his motivation was, but I had to literally drag him out and away from trying to grab people.

It's unfortunate that these situations occur FAR too regularly in this (and other) spots and really would push casual users away from taking transit.

The good news is that for scenario #1 they showed up relatively quickly and kicked them out, but how at rush hour do we not have more officers doing this at main stations without having to call on a regular basis.

Alas.
 
IanO said:
On Friday I had to call Transit Watch twice within an hour for two different situations at the top of stairs of Bay LRT on 104st south of Jasper.

1. 3 individuals smoking and blocking the stairs, definitely NOT transit users who would have made that passing very uncomfortable for actual users.
2. a guy totally out of his mind yelling at transit users and who the F knows what his motivation was, but I had to literally drag him out and away from trying to grab people.

It's unfortunate that these situations occur FAR too regularly in this (and other) spots and really would push casual users away from taking transit.

The good news is that for scenario #1 they showed up relatively quickly and kicked them out, but how at rush hour do we not have more officers doing this at main stations without having to call on a regular basis.

Alas.
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These are the worst stairs in the whole city, I'm convinced. I don't even bother using them anymore. I think it's because the glass is just far back enough from Jasper street view.
 
My issue is that even though they just replaced all of the glass, it is warm moist air from below and so it makes the panels opaque and people hide just inside the doors.

It's CPTED 101 and I've brought it up to various ETS, EPS, PO folk and it falls on deaf ears.
 
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