it’s at least inevitable when the subway is usually already a mess (even then though, i think homeless people create most of the mess — homelessness is a transit problem!)
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yes, a huge one--which the management and passengers are blithely unconcerned with; they seem to think that it's "natural" for transit to be the de facto homeless shelter for the city
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imagine if government offices, or banks, or even grocery stores had this attitude--lol
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I’m familiar with a public library that, does, in fact have that attitude. It has not been good for the library.
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yes--libraries all over America are quickly getting to the same state as transit
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Homeless people are the public, too, and they have every right to use and enjoy the collections. But homelessness ought not to be a license to make it hard for other patrons to enjoy the collections.
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yes, the problem with them is less that they read the books and more that they discourage the rest of the public from reading the books at a bare minimum: if libraries and transit are going to be treated as homeless shelters, INSTALL SOME FUCKING SHOWERS to keep the stink down
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Showers at the bus station and library is genius. Kind of a sad commentary on social services in the United States. But genius.
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bus stops are too numerous and lack the infrastructure--but train stations don't have any excuse
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I mean, like the main terminal, which, even in cities that don’t have a big problem at bus stops, can accumulate a crowd.
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oh--yes, certainly for those
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