Yeggy
Active Member
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.
|
|
|
- Thread starter quit
- Start date
SarcasticMarmot
Active Member
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
Active Member
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
Senior Member
We basically have that in Churchill already.
YEG Bus Rider
Active Member
Transit Rider Feedback Form - I usually upload relevant photos to a link only imgur album.
CplKlinger
Senior Member
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
Active Member
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
Superstar
Neither path to and fro the hospital to the LRT station have been touched; pure ice.
thommyjo
Senior Member
It’s bad out there currently. So much soft snow on top of thick ice. We gotta find solutions.
IanO
Superstar
Carrie head of ETS very responsive and looking into it.
She's wonderful and super responsive.
She's wonderful and super responsive.
IanO
Superstar
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.
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
Senior Member
These open drug users need to stop being referred to as "poor victims". If they're using fentanyl they need to be arrested.
Last edited:
The_Cat
Senior Member
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
Active Member
Yes, arrested, but to be clear, they should be sent to mandatory drug rehabilitation programs - not prisons.
Immotus
New Member
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.
FYI he has for years insisted the plan is to tunnel underneath the CN rail yard.