Whatever you, as an operator, tolerate in the behavior of your passengers, you also *command* other passengers to tolerate--or to leave. Most who have the option prefer to leave, and who can blame them?
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.
End of conversation
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