LRT Safety

[SarcasticMarmot]

Highlighting the cost is the wrong approach. Providing safe clean places to go to the bathroom, a universal experience, needs to be viewed as a core city function.

We've been making that argument for decades. In my experience, financial cost arguments tend to persuade people better. People stay away because of the excrement/urine downtown, ergo money is being lost, investing in bathrooms is one of the ways we can stem that loss. As I recall that was the argument that got the Whye Ave bathroom built.

 

[Yeggy]

Well now you are highlighting the negative cost of not doing something. That is very different than saying we need bathrooms and that will be expensive.

 

[thommyjo]

Took my kid to city center via the train to run and errand. Train itself was fine but as usual the big issue is how the elevators smell like urine. It's a major disincentive to go downtown with a stroller. We desperately need attended public washrooms in the Churchill area that are open 24/7 and to folks on the street. I know it would cost a pretty penny but alot less than putting attendants in every elevator!

We basically have that in Churchill already.

 

[YEG Bus Rider]

Can you please ask Carrie about sending feedback like this through 311? The "transit feedback" category requires operator info, incident time, and other info that is not applicable in cases like this. Yet, they said at the service plan event last year to send suggestions through 311.

Transit Rider Feedback Form - I usually upload relevant photos to a link only imgur album.

 

[CplKlinger]

Transit Rider Feedback Form - I usually upload relevant photos to a link only imgur album.

Yeah, I know about that but at the event she specifically said that 311 is the best way to send feedback, route requests, suggestions, etc. Plus it's just convenient to access since I have the app. But you're right, that web form is a lot better suited for general feedback.

 

[YEG Bus Rider]

Yeah, I know about that but at the event she specifically said that 311 is the best way to send feedback, route requests, suggestions, etc. Plus it's just convenient to access since I have the app. But you're right, that web form is a lot better suited for general feedback.

January 2026 Newsletter recently suggested going through Transit Rider Feedback Form to report route/bus specific inclement weather concerns.


Wish 311 app would be revised, because it can be a pain in the ass.

 

[IanO]

Neither path to and fro the hospital to the LRT station have been touched; pure ice.

 

[thommyjo]

Neither path to and fro the hospital to the LRT station have been touched; pure ice.View attachment 711547View attachment 711548

It’s bad out there currently. So much soft snow on top of thick ice. We gotta find solutions.

 

[IanO]

Carrie head of ETS very responsive and looking into it.

She's wonderful and super responsive.

 

[IanO]

Took the LRT from 102st to Muttart and man o man 102-Churchill was sketchy.

Not a single visible uniform on a busy Saturday night with many families and single women waiting.

3/5 shelters at 102st being used with open drug use.

A guy on the train totally spaced out barely standing.

This is simply unacceptable. I'll be speaking with ETS and our Councillor next week.

 

[The_Cat]

These open drug users need to stop being referred to as "poor victims". If they're using fentanyl they need to be arrested.

 

[The_Cat]

I once called an ambulance on somebody who was passed out. The paramedics who took him said this was the third day in a row for this person.

 

[yeggator]

These open drug users need to stop being referred to as "poor victims". If they're using fentanyl they need to be arrested.

Yes, arrested, but to be clear, they should be sent to mandatory drug rehabilitation programs - not prisons.

 

[Immotus]

My BIL is middle management at ETS, he had a few interesting things to say. The switch from 4 to 2 car trains is preventing drug use and loitering from when homeless concentrate and take over an entire car. Shorter trains force people to mix and this eye's on the street psychology has caused a drop in damage and disruption. Also EPS has stepped up enforcement on the LRT and they're finding many of these people have warrants for arrest in other locations, so they can ship them out of the city. Some had dozens apparently.

FYI he has for years insisted the plan is to tunnel underneath the CN rail yard.

 

[MacLac]

My BIL is middle management at ETS, he had a few interesting things to say. The switch from 4 to 2 car trains is preventing drug use and loitering from when homeless concentrate and take over an entire car. Shorter trains force people to mix and this eye's on the street psychology has caused a drop in damage and disruption. Also EPS has stepped up enforcement on the LRT and they're finding many of these people have warrants for arrest in other locations, so they can ship them out of the city. Some had dozens apparently.

FYI he has for years insisted the plan is to tunnel underneath the CN rail yard.

Nice! I like "shipping out of the city....."