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Recently a train opened up that connects downtown to where I live, not free, but ticketing isn't really enforced. There had previously been bus service, and of
by SamReidHughes 4y ago
Recently a train opened up that connects downtown to where I live, not free, but ticketing isn't really enforced. There had previously been bus service, and of course, roads. Now the place is populated with bums, the nearby Starbucks removed indoor seating, the supermarket, once open 24 hours and a place for van-dwelling homeless to use computers, now has gates up to inhibit shoplifting, and what was once a safe area at night, with some safe homeless people, now has crazy lunatics walking around.
This is the cost of free public transit.
- vlovich123 4y agoCould be correlation not causation without knowing more about the time period and geographic area you’re discussing. Homeless rates have been skyrocketing everywhere.
- SamReidHughes 4y agoIt happened basically as a phase change over the first month it was open. Far beyond the previous rise in local homelessness, which had happened a bit here and there, but you were never stepping over people.
- scrollaway 4y agoOh stop. No, this isn't the "cost of free public transit" - first of all, it's not even "free public transit". It's the cost of your local administration not dealing with the homeless population correctly. It's the cost of a terrible social net.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoIt’s called a prerequisite.
- rippercushions 4y agoAh yes, all of this is obviously directly and entirely the train's fault. Are you perchance American?
- jkestner 4y agoHomelessness is also a problem that needs to be addressed! But probably not by shuttling it elsewhere.
- SamReidHughes 4y agoYou know, I tried, but whenever I tell the bums they need to address this problem, they start cursing and throwing ketchup packets at me.