How would people struggling with mental, substance abuse and addiction issues camping right next to the commuters make the experience worse, even dangerous, to those commuters? Not much of a question, really. And aside from those, there’s piss and shit too and that sort of issues, waste, used needles and stuff. Areas where there’s a lot of homeless people unfortunately are pretty dangerous and others start to avoid them
I mean it seems like a lot of that could be avoided by, for example, keeping the goddamn bathrooms open (or making there be public bathrooms). Drugs are already illegal. The station is still a roof over your head, making it preferable to the street whether or not there are benches.
Ironically it seems like the most direct harm done by homeless people sleeping on the benches is that those benches aren’t usable by commuters who may need to rest. And this certainly makes that problem go away, I guess. Wouldn’t exactly call it solved.
why are they addicted???
who sold them the thing they are addicted to???
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Alcohol is sold in most stores from what I know. If drugs, I dunno, drug dealers?
Pharmaceutical companies and Alcohol Brands are both run by the 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 bourgeoise 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
you think drug dealers give out free samples?
it usually starts with a prescription
Do you mean like owned by? Because the actual people running those places are just regular clerks and shit
Some do yeah. Often the dealer isn’t some random guy but a person you know or even a friend of yours. They might give you a hit
They do fent or alcohol prescriptions 👀
Not sure what this has to do with the subway benches though
owned by
SOME
And yes, fentanyl is used A LOT in medical care and so are multiple other addictive substances such as morphine and other addictive painkillers
the homeless are homeless because of the system
the best we could do is house them
Right but it’s not the transit system’s job. Of course they don’t want to make commuting worse for all of those non-homeless people using it
how would people having a place to sleep make commuting worse?
How would people struggling with mental, substance abuse and addiction issues camping right next to the commuters make the experience worse, even dangerous, to those commuters? Not much of a question, really. And aside from those, there’s piss and shit too and that sort of issues, waste, used needles and stuff. Areas where there’s a lot of homeless people unfortunately are pretty dangerous and others start to avoid them
Subway stations aren’t build to house people.
hm, maybe we could help more people to get houses then? and access to food, basic utilities, and medical / mental health care? 🤔
I mean it seems like a lot of that could be avoided by, for example, keeping the goddamn bathrooms open (or making there be public bathrooms). Drugs are already illegal. The station is still a roof over your head, making it preferable to the street whether or not there are benches.
Ironically it seems like the most direct harm done by homeless people sleeping on the benches is that those benches aren’t usable by commuters who may need to rest. And this certainly makes that problem go away, I guess. Wouldn’t exactly call it solved.