[policyenthusiast]

The LRT safety report is out!
They're phasing out commissionaires and hiring 30 new transit peace officers, which will allow them to increase proactive patrols throughout the network.
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Strikes me as "treat the symptoms" changes. Current Peace Officers still do not have effective enforcement mechanisms by which they can address problem behaviors.

It seems like the idea is to fight the perception of "unsafe transit" rather than empowering law enforcement, which is closer to marketing than it is to governance.

 

[trevorhayden]

Options 1 and 2 actually sound good!

 

[Kosy123]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/stm-homelessness-measures-1.7482650

Not Edmonton LRT safety, but it's fascinating reading what's coming out of Montreal's STM and essentially having it be the same here with ETS.

 

[IanO]

Walked to work this morning and due to it being a bit cold was going to cut through the Bay LRT station.

On the 104st s/o Jasper stairs there was a lady mentally unstable, yelling and screaming.

On the n/o Jasper enclosed stairs there were 3 folks completely blocking the stairs, actively using drugs, with one individual who clearly made it clear to not intervene or interrupt their little session.

I did call Transit Watch and advised them; here's hoping resources responded and action was taken.

This continues to be an almost daily issue and cannot imagine a family taking the LRT from the burbs coming for brunch, church or a show today and that's their takeaway.

 

[trevorhayden]

This will all end in an instant if UCP lifts their moratorium on safe consumption sites.

 

[Glenco]

This will all end in an instant if UCP lifts their moratorium on safe consumption sites.

BS

 

[thommyjo]

This will all end in an instant if UCP lifts their moratorium on safe consumption sites.

How’s that working in Seattle, Vancouver, LA, Portland???

 

[trevorhayden]

Those places don't have safer supply. The situation is just as bad as Edmonton.

 

[policyenthusiast]

Those places don't have safer supply. The situation is just as bad as Edmonton.

It's not "just as bad" in places with SCSs. 99% of the time they are much, much worse.

 

[thommyjo]

Those places don't have safer supply. The situation is just as bad as Edmonton.

Bro what.

Safe injection site and needle exchange

Safe injection sites help decrease the adverse health, social, and economic consequences of drug use without requiring abstinence.

vancouver.ca

 

[degrandprix]

I think he's saying we also need "safe supply" in addition to safe consumption sites? I don't see how that will help though.

 

[IanO]

Maybe it's just me, but one would think that before your main service/rushour of customers that a business, any business, would to a review of their premises and have them looking their best to welcome the day?

 

[MacLac]

Couldn’t agree more Ian, “dress for success” is another moniker one could use. It could have also been cleaned 2 min before you snapped that pic? One thing homeless folk like - a clean canvas to destroy with garbage and drug paraphernalia.

Ian, quit posting your “dirty” downtown pics on SSP, don’t give that “group” something to bitch about

 

[policyenthusiast]

Couldn’t agree more Ian, “dress for success” is another moniker one could use. It could have also been cleaned 2 min before you snapped that pic? One thing homeless folk like - a clean canvas to destroy with garbage and drug paraphernalia.

Ian, quit posting your “dirty” downtown pics on SSP, don’t give that “group” something to bitch about

"that group" in question:

 

[thommyjo]

Maybe it's just me, but one would think that before your main service/rushour of customers that a business, any business, would to a review of their premises and have them looking their best to welcome the day?

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I literally don’t get how this happens when we spend tens of millions on cleaning. If the average cleaner is paid 60k a year, 100 staff are 6mil (7 once you factor in total cost with taxes/benefits). Can 100 staff not manage to have a few cleaners full time every day at every station?