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As well as functional clean elevators in more stations. More seats (trains like the R maximize seat/space ratio while trains like the 4/5/6 don't) Also ban bu

• pavel_lishin 10y ago
  > Also ban bums from sleeping on trains. I think there's likely already a law against it, it's a matter of enforcement. And I for one have a hard time being mad at someone sleeping on a train at night during the winter time; shelters aren't fun places, they fill up and have stringent requirements, and for many of them, the alternative is freezing to death outside.
  • astrodust 10y ago
    New York's answer to the homeless problem is to throw them in jail, and considering many suffer from severe mental illness, this is really cruel and inhumane. So they're swept under the rug. It's absurd.
    • cududa 10y ago
      Compared to San Francisco where they're let to just wry in the wind?
      • astrodust 10y ago
        Most American cities I've visited take an indifferent and/or actively hostile attitude towards people with mental illness. It's actually kind of scary.
        • pavel_lishin 10y ago
          Yeah. If you have a family history of mental illness and live in America, make sure you've got a big support network of friends and family, in case you develop a mental illness. That would probably be more useful than healthcare coverage.
          • astrodust 10y ago
            In America anyway where having health-care is tied to employment and employment can be difficult to maintain when you're increasingly mentally ill. Somewhere more civilized it's not as much a problem to see a psychiatrist, the cost is fully covered. If there's medication and you can't afford it there's ways of getting that covered too. It's much better to have people "in the system" where they're receiving disability support, subsidized housing, and medical care than to just turf them on the street or treat them as profit centers in private prisons.
• egypturnash 10y ago
  They gotta sleep somewhere. All the shelters are full.