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Originally Posted by WildCake
Invite more of it? Adding a bus shack doesn't add more homelessness. Maybe makes it more visible sure.
I don't think we should stop improving transit infrastructure indefinitely until some arbitrary time where homelessness is better managed.
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yeah, It's tough. I agree of course, but are downtown bus shelters really transit infrastructure anymore? They might do more to deter people from using transit at this point. I know a few women who have stopped taking the bus to work because they are afraid to stand at their stop now.
It's hard to just ignore. When I saw that shelter going up, all I could think was what it will look like in the near future. It's not a matter of if, but when. It struck me because I know the personal investment this developer has made and the struggle it has been to make a building work in downtown. The challenges he will face to lease the homes and make the ground floor space and sidewalk patio inviting for patrons is represented in that seemingly innocuous bus shelter going up.
I totally understand that not allowing people to live in bus shelters is not solving the problem, but what are we doing instead to solve the problem? I don't see much initiative being taken.