"...a free for all permissive space makes it hostile for most." EXACTLY! Glad to hear that libraries are starting to pick up on this too--public spaces need STANDARDS if they are to be welcoming, or even useful https://twitter.com/LewisP7641/status/1049698995512197120 …
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That, and the lower incidence of homelessness in Japan to begin with. I promise you, most people in their cars in USA do not smell remotely as bad as some of the people I've run into on the bus. People have no idea.
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then it's a mental health and housing problem. not a true transit problem.
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The mental health of the chronically homeless has nothing to do with the policy of the transit operators regarding passengers who ruin customer experience
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i think it does since public transit operators often take on the 'refuse' of society in many cities. would rather just shuffle them under the rug than deal with the problem. a bus becomes that rug.
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This is a *policy decision of transit operators,* though, not something they are magically compelled to do, or anything intrinsically related to transit's function (viz., moving large numbers of people)
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If we decide that buses are to be mobile homeless shelters, well, so much the worse for bus riders--but that's not what buses are actually for, otherwise they'd be designed very differently. As it stands, forcing transit to fill that role isn't great for the homeless, either!
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that's exactly what i'm saying. it's not a direct policy that someone consciously made. it's exactly the same way that other guy was arguing that what the seats are made out of don't matter. no one is thinking about the actual impact of their policies.
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And ergo it can be solved by correcting policies where relevant
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yes. which might just be stopping the homeless from riding.
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