[David A]

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

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.

 

[Windermere]

Literally have to step over people to get to the platform.

 

[Whatup]

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

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.

 

[Greenspace]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2020957484194918795

 

[degrandprix]

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.

 

[David A]

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Yes, this is fairly easy to fix or improve. I'm not sure why there is such resistance here and we continue to debate this endlessly, particularly when our underground LRT stations actually were initially built with them.

 

[thommyjo]

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Awesome to see and I believe it.

For us though, while a win if Bay enterprise platform is safe and clean, the numerous entrances to the pedways and the hallways all exist still.

Does it matter much to fix one area if it still exists 20ft away?

 

[David A]

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.

 

[IanO]

Put them at Downtown stations and terminus'.

 

[constance_chlore]

I'm a fan of the classical music in downtown LRT stations, but I wish they'd mix up the repertoire a bit. In any case, sometimes I think the opening to Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture is a more powerful drug than meth.

 

[The_Cat]

Walking through Central Station at lunch, it’s nice to see more working people.

 

[archited]

^^ Have you tried both?

 

[constance_chlore]

^^ Have you tried both?

Nice try, fed! If I did listen to the Russian early romanticists, I'd never cop to it on a public forum.

 

[archited]

Nice try, fed!

Did you call me "fed" 'cause I come off like a narc; or is it because you are "fed" up with my nonsense postings.

 

[dkazzed]

Not LRT related and in Calgary not Edmonton, but at the McDonald's on Memorial Dr and Edmonton Trail (our toddler didn't approve of the hipster sandwiches we got, but admittedly we got a couple of treats for ourselves while we were there), there was a very aggressive panhandler. As someone who is very comfortable walking through Boyle/Macauley after dark as well as the Vancouver Downtown Eastside, I was scared. Is Calgary's houseless population still very much there, just more hidden and maybe more desperate? I definitely saw the houseless population elsewhere. At least the C-Train is safe. We didn't take it this time, $4 per adult per trip plus $2/hour to charge our EV didn't make sense vs. parking at Telus Spark for $12 and charging our EV at no additional cost (not the one under the solar hail shelter which is $2/hour after 2 hours but the one in the open closer to the zoo).