There should be a lot, a lot more commuters than there are homeless. But homeless people unfortunately have very high incidence of mental and substance abuse issues that often manifest in unpredictable and dangerous behaviour. And it’s not made for housing people, so facilities for that aren’t there and removing the homeless from there (or trying to, rather) you can try to minize the issues and make the place better for commuters.
Something being illegal doesn’t stop it from happening. I’d prefer more enforcement over removing benches, but with too limited resources I don’t think the transit system can really do that.
There should be a lot, a lot more commuters than there are homeless. But homeless people unfortunately have very high incidence of mental and substance abuse issues that often manifest in unpredictable and dangerous behaviour. And it’s not made for housing people, so facilities for that aren’t there and removing the homeless from there (or trying to, rather) you can try to minize the issues and make the place better for commuters.
Something being illegal doesn’t stop it from happening. I’d prefer more enforcement over removing benches, but with too limited resources I don’t think the transit system can really do that.