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LRT Safety

Greenspace said:
^I go to the Winspear often. EPS and Peace Officers are there all the time. They usher them out and then they come back again in 15 minutes. It's an endless cycle.

Officers can ticket or remove individuals from loitering on transit property, but often they choose just to move them along. If they need social supports they're directed as such. Rarely do they charge someone under a provincial summons anymore for racking up multiple fines. That used to be fairly common but now it is more frowned up as clogging up the judicial system, and often folks have their cases dismissed for the lengthy delays they face.
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I'm sure I'm oversimplifying a complex problem etc., etc., yadda, yadda, but instead they're clogging up our transit (and other) infrastructure, causing filth and destruction, and FFS enough is enough. I realise I sound like an angry old right winger instead of the exhausted middle-aged leftie that I am on this topic, but I have had enough.
 
We’ve all had enough but have been to “scared” to say anything g without getting branded a right wing nut job…….incarceration, spade and neutering, buying bus tickets….anything to stop this is insanity game we’re playing
 
MacLac said:
We’ve all had enough but have been to “scared” to say anything g without getting branded a right wing nut job…….incarceration, spade and neutering, buying bus tickets….anything to stop this is insanity game we’re playing
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Yes, but if we don't want to be called a nut job, lets stay away from the middle option (I think that was humour though).

The first should be done more and the third one in some cases, for instance people who are released from prison here should go back to the communities they were from.
 
Literally have to step over people to get to the platform.
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MacLac said:
We’ve all had enough but have been to “scared” to say anything g without getting branded a right wing nut job…….incarceration, spade and neutering, buying bus tickets….anything to stop this is insanity game we’re playing
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This comment is fascinating - so if people want pragmatic crime policies, safe communities and consequences for people who break laws they are "right wing nut jobs" - If people want less government, more effective government that doesn't throw money at its virtue signalling pet projects, doesn't give city places 30 word names that no one (including indigenous people) can pronounce - they are "right wing nut jobs". If people want to develop our very valueable and in-demand resources by building more pipelines they are "right wing nut jobs". If people want basic scientific recognition that there are two genders and want women to be safe in their public spaces and during sports competitions they are "right wing nut jobs". If people want a meritocracy and not DEI racist hiring policies they are "right wing nut jobs. If people vote for the UCP or Conservatives they are "right wing nut jobs". If people want tighter controls and oversight of loosely regulated immigration they are "right wing nut jobs". If people don't like a man-child sliver spoon virtue signalling PM illegally using the Emergencies Act on law abiding citizens and freezing their bank accounts during a national crisis they are "right wing nut jobs". Okay got it. It's become quite obvious that the most intolerant and combative people in western society are not conservatives but "left wing nut jobs" who endorse cancel culture for anything they disagree with, love to tear down national icons like #99 simply because of who he chooses to be friends with, keeping our "climate disaster" resources in the ground even though they are the number one commodity we have and endorses groomer school teachers/ councillors to have secret chats with children to see if they might be in the wrong gender body, and let's give opioid addicts free access to tax payer funded drugs and see how it goes. Sounds pretty nutty to me.
 
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Was BART built with fare gates originally? I think all it's stations are already laid out for it, unlike here where it could only be easily done at the underground stations.

Also from what I remember when using it a few times when visiting SF, the gates are right at the exterior entrance, unlike ours where they would be at the platform entrance (leaving the same problems to occur at the entranceways/concourses).


That is an incredible change though, I would support fare gates here if it could actually be implemented properly.
 
Yes it actually does matter. First of all a more secure platform frees up security and other staff to focus more on problems elsewhere. Secondly and perhaps most importantly it gives transit users a more secure platform, which is where they are going to be waiting and the trains they will be riding on.
 
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