does japan have this problem?
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Replying to @JoustPosting
Not nearly as badly as here in Western MA, but yes, I do run into people there who smell like booze-sweat or stale tobacco. The difference is they appear to be coming from bars and aren't usually around during the day, and those smells aren't compounded by unwashed clothes etc.
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Replying to @380kmh
then it's some cultural artifact. maybe due to cars and more sprawl? how you smell isn't as important when you're in a car and no one is around.
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Replying to @JoustPosting
No, I think it has to do with not allowing the chronically homeless to hang out on trains all day
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Replying to @380kmh
then it's a mental health and housing problem. not a true transit problem.
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Replying to @JoustPosting
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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Replying to @380kmh
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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Replying to @JoustPosting
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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Replying to @380kmh @JoustPosting
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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Replying to @380kmh
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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Replying to @380kmh
yes. which might just be stopping the homeless from riding.
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