Commuters in Edmonton shocked by troubled state of LRT transit system
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- Widespread drug use, aggressive encounters and the stench of human waste - it’s all part of the daily commute for Light Rail Transit (LRT) riders in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
In this exclusive investigation, Global News explored transit safety issues in Edmonton, focusing on the city’s LRT system.
We spoke with numerous riders who said they often feel uncomfortable or unsafe inside the train station or on the train itself.
During our weeks-long investigation, reporter Morgan Black spoke with community members across the city and rode the LRT system, collecting images and video of the situation as well as speaking to local leaders to explore what’s next.
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If the city wants us to give up our cars, ride transit, and use less carbon, they have all the wrong people in charge. I'm driving my car.
They're purposely hitting you with the high price of gas to deter you from using your car... it's all part of the Zero Emissions by 2030 plan...
This is the reason many people fail knowledge test Alberta including me failing twice in the test and shortage cars.
Thanks global for actually reporting on this
But Global chooses not to report how the UCP gov has cut funding to treat addiction.
Conveniently. Just enough info to enrage politically illiterate folks. But not enough info to educate on the cause.
That's the leadership here in Edmonton... doing the job so well.
Stop voting liberals
The province cut funding for public services. You can thank them for this sorry state.
It's all the junkies what's the city gonna do hand out fentinal it's the only way to get rid of homeless
You can thank Jason Kenney and his corrupt party for this, he cut funding to so many things, many mentioned that this would happen and yet his supporters had their say and it would not be so bad, now they're the people complaining the most.
@@oomachiw111 You do realize that government makes nothing or builds nothing, they squander your tax dollars and are never held accountable, you have to do more with the money or raise taxes on those who get out of bed in the morning to go put food on the table.
I brought my friend up from Calgary to visit and taking the trains downtown was embarrassing! All my friend could do was be SHOCKED at how much actual crap was everywhere
that's a big fat exaggeration. i have lived in edmonton for 20 years and take transit DAILY and i never see that. maybe you should stop pooping on the LRT
@@oglostingaming maybe youre in a different Edmonton? Dodging feces, needles and drugged out people is a regular occurance commuting In downtown core now
@@realityisblurred3330 I literally work downtown so you’re wrong bud.
@@oglostingaming because you're the only person who works DT 🤣 - I can't even imagine what stop u must get off at to be totally oblivious because every single one is problematic (govt centre, corona, bay, central and Churchill)
@Bacon Pancakes - try living DT here too 😉 maybe you'll have a more informed perspective.....
Left Edmonton in 2015, never looked back! I explain that city like this: "It's similar to living in Gotham city without Batman"
😂
I like it. It is starting to feel that way
It’s actually getting really bad there. What do you expect when officials are still relying on oil and coal to save them in 2022
Moved back from Calgary that city is way worse now. 1st month witnessed a girl stabbed to death the rest was overdose all the time. Couldn’t walk my dogs thanks to needles and human feces everywhere. Back in Edmonton and only seen 2 addicts scoping out the alley not successful lol
Thankfully everyone still hates Edmonton which keeps the gross in Calgary and Vancouver
Then again Edmonton is boring for the young
Well said!
It’s a treat to feel comfortable and not get harassed on the LRT or buses. No wonder ridership has tanked.
Yeah and the ridership was low to begin with because most people in Edmonton drive.
@@joseopao and most can't drive neither hehe.
it's ok i'm just fine riding the bus without all the people who complain like you lol
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We need to put these people into treatment if they want it or not, this drug use is a plague on our society
Perhaps if we provided realistic income supports years earlier, they wouldn't need to be in treatment?
Over in Ontario, Ford -Conservatives are bringing beer and coolers to convenience stores.
In Alberta the UCP cuts provincial funding for addiction treatment & public healthcare while whining about seeing homeless people.
Conservatives whine a lot while providing no solutions but austerity cuts. But no cheaper groceries. hmmm.
I take the transit. That’s how I get around. I smell alcohol and drugs on the bus. I’m visually impaired. I can’t see if someone is holding a weapon. I don’t feel safe taking the bus at night.
How did u type this comment then 🤣😂
@@jordancreer.e.a.l2250 ur slow
@@jordancreer.e.a.l2250 how did you think of such a question, when I typed I never looked at the keys once and I just slicked it without looking?
I was once on a bus going from a suburb to Vancouver on the highway during rushour. A passenger threatened to throw the operator through the window when the operator ignored him after telling him got too much pay for turning a wheel. I noticed the operator pushed a button on his dash and kept ignoring the guy threatening him. 3 minutes later, at a stop after the tunnel, transit cops boarded the bus and arrested the guy. I found out later the guy got charged with threatening the operator and endangering the lives of the passengers and got sentenced to 4 month in jail. Apparently all the evidence was on camera and sound recorded.
Yeah and he was out 2 hours later doing it again.
@@alanj9978 Actually he did his full 4 months and then was sent to ON and now is in jail for another crime.
@@rps1689 huh. Didn't think we did that anymore.
@@alanj9978 I heard he had a knack for ticking off judges and showing up late for court appearances.
@@alanj9978 Stick to the facts dude.
I love public transit and use it all the time when travelling. Unfortunately, my home of Edmonton is the one place I avoid it as it feels far more unsafe than any other city through which I've travelled.
looks like a diversity haven to me
You should come to Toronto. We now have Criminals with sawed off shotguns on the streetcar platforms at subway stations. This should make you feel much safer.
@@PWingert1966Toronto is wauyyy safer than Edmonton, n 6 times bigger,
@davidchandler6885 nor really. Edmonton more safer than Toronto.
Edmonton is more safer than most Canadian lrt. You EdmontonIan's just hate progress.
Edmonton - Where police chase down and fine taxpayers driving to work a bit fast, but if you do herion on public transit well that's cool, no problem.
Cant blame them, our woke media will drag them for persecuting the vulnerable
Yup. They have no problem trampling old lady protestors. But do drugs on a public transit. 👍
So it’s ok to drive at unsafe speeds through sch zones just because u are not a druggy. Smart reasoning there my friend
Vancouver: Welcome to the club. And I have a feeling Toronto is somewhere here too.
@@bicycles-as-far-as-im-aliv5725 I think he is saying the speed limit was turned from 15 over to 10 over. Which is a clear money grab
I used to work as a security guard. There are hands-on sites and hands-off sites. The sites that are just to observe and report are hands-off sites. Maybe making the lrt a hands-on site where security is able to arrest and detain people might do something
To be fair, it’s only one guard per station or at most two. Not everyone is alone on transit. Making the sites hands on, would be pretty dangerous for the guards.
@@eliazararevalo6924 only if there isn’t at least four of them and they don’t have the proper equipment and personal protection equipment to do it. Also they would need somewhere to hold these people until police get there.
@@eliazararevalo6924 also being security is always dangerous. It’s just a shame that security isn’t paid as well.
@@The-real-Alex I did a lot of security work for school. There won’t ever be the funding to provide enough bodies to make the situation safe. Not all security work is dangerous, for the most part your giving directions. Removing patrons and holding people happens in more volume heavy environments. Peace officers riding more often could prob be a better solution instead of security guards. Just my opinion tho.
@@eliazararevalo6924 Sorry to disagree with you but I’ve also been in the security industry in Edmonton Alberta Canada. So maybe the danger is very geographical in nature. But security work always holds a risk that the patrons said you were trying to remove from the area will become violent for any number of reasons. There is always a risk there’s always a danger there. That is why in security They preach to always be vigilant and aware of your surroundings at all times because anything could happen. Just most of the time nothing dangerous happens. But there’s always at risk. And for example the city centre mall in Edmonton Alberta it is a hands-on site has multiple guards at least 20 at a time and they detain people there. It all depends on the contract. If the City of Edmonton chose to put more funding into their contracts for the LRT stations they would have the amount of security officers and abilities to detain people. So it is possible but City of Edmonton is just not willing to do it.
Hey minister Prasad and city council, I have had to take transit more than a few times in the past couple months. The stations go from bad to worse depending on time of day. Pre-Covid 2019 was not quite as bad, and a decade ago there was almost no sign of this until late night. The lack of doing, well, anything, is egregious.
Walk
@@user-wu4yh8bu4t That's why we need 15 minute cities. Hopefully, with no Level 10 smoke to breathe on a daily basis.
Only in Edmonton can the city make public transit an inconvenience, rather than a convenience. The whole point of public transit infrastructure and governance is to make peoples daily commute bearable, but the city is too woke and weak to take hard action on crime, druggies, the homeless, queue jumpers, and the list goes on and on. The city councilors need to be fired and replaced with people that understand the basics of public transit management. I bet if we contracted/consulted the work out to the Japan Railways Group, we might even make a profit on this joke of a transit system.
Liberal governments always care more about the criminals than the tax paying citizens. They want to 'fix society' while letting the skids do whatever they want in the meantime.
You could build all the housing in the world but these people hanging around the LRT doing drugs would still hang out there and the problem would even multiply.
We have the WOKEest city council that we have ever had right now so Sohi won't fix this. He'll just yammer on about vulnerable people and racialized victims.
Hell, they won't even spray those poor misunderstood mosquitos much less cart off drug addicts.
Deregulation is the only answer. Let riders hire their own police forces to enforce their safety. Free market freedom!!! Let Walmart build LRT if they want customers!!
@@ransom182 West Edmonton Mall didn't even want a transit stop there for LRT because they know what can happen and are smart.
and you will not see WEM become a homeless camp because they have security up the ying yang. The Germezians should run Edmonton. It would be clean and orderly.
Only in Edmonton 🤣 come to Toronto people getting knifed to death on the TTC
@@mrbill4206 yea true!!! We can have “cleanliness camps” for all the undesirables to live in. They can do a little labour for 6 or 7 days a weeks for a place to stay! They will love it. Lots of praying and fellowship time at church! Freedom camps!!!! If they don’t like it we can ship them off to liberal commie Vancouver just like Klein used to do. The can be happy there wearing masks and getting free prescription heroin and vaccines.
man, you guys are starting to look like our Metro Train system here in Los Angeles, Drug addicts, Mentally Ill , robberies, Homicides , Homeless transport system..
At least ya'll have the right to self defense. Here in Canada your life can be ruined if you're carrying a knife that looks too scary.
I really hope the person who pushed that person get caught and charged hard.
They were caught and despite their likely long criminal record already not sure about the second part.
These drug addicts overdose either by accident or deliberate to escape their crap life. And the paramedics just bring them back to continue their crap life. The whole system is broken! There is not one thing humans have not screwed up.
Fortunately, the rich people who live in houses close to the LRT have options. 3:40 "We're really having conversations about whether or not we need to move to another community. 4:15 "There are talks to close off the fence that links neighbors to transit." Just keep the filthy, homeless, mentally unstable drug addicts far away from the comfortable middle class.
The government is helping the homeless people giving sheltar and food but the homeless people want drugs and alcohol this is the problem
Safer if drug users take an overdose? What a joke! I don't care how harsh I sound, you take drugs that is on your own risk. You shouldn't get get help. Period. These bums and drug addicts should be run out. They don't want to go to work and expect help from the government is ridiculous. They either clean up or reap the consequences!
Right?? Instead of enabling these drug addicts we should let them overdose or apply naloxone themselves…
police is busy given traffic tickets to the working people
FACT
Maybe if these adults stopped treating the roads like the autobahn the police could be elsewhere?
@@karenacton3854 no 80% of union salary enveloppe come from traffic tickets.
Working people have jobs so they can pay for fines. It's simple math.
How about, no boarding the LRT stations without a bus pass/transit ticket, for a start.
Not just on K-Days.
I say take away the security and let them OD.
Riley for Prime Minister
This sums up the state of the city.
Cities are supposed to get better. Not worse. Edmonton was already nothing special tens years ago when I moved there. It’s become such a dump.
The solution is jails… for some reason people view jails as a punishment and inhumane. Look how these people live on the streets and how dangerous it is for them; as well as, for people who don’t live on the streets. Jails offer programs, meals and immediate health services to prevent and stop over doses. It’s better then this…
Good thing you can’t lock up anyone
Then the justice system is unfair , and the police are being mean
Meanwhile they are expanding the system to bring the problem to new and exciting areas
100% they are taking the problem and spreading it out instead of taking care of it before sending it to other parts of the city
Why is there no or very little Lrt fare checking?
exactly !!! that is the problem
Same way in Calgary, I havent been asked to produce in over 2 years lol
Security must ride inside the train with the riders, bec. inside train something is not right: loud noise music, smells drunk , doing drugs, some are high, or some are mentally ill, so scary and very unsafe, especially early morning of saturday/ Sunday , and evening....omg...so frightened
You are absolutely right!!
And I do believe the police avoid the LRT on purpose! They want the LRT to be unsafe. Then they can use it as leverage when their budget comes in front of city council!! Their budget has been slashed, and they want a bigger budget, so if they can say, we CAN'T keep the LRT safe because we don't have enough money to hire the officers to patrol the LRT.
Just watch, when the police budget comes to city council, the LRT will be the focus!
All security will do is observe and report. Thr situation will continue until the next stop where MAYBE police will be there.
Are these security officers from a private security firm or are they Transit police officers? Usually private security guards aren’t allowed to get involved in some cases, depending on their company’s policy, like getting involved in drug related crime (either because they aren’t equipped to handle it or cause of liability)
@@gargwinvinesnake6961 they half the time don't even do that for I know many people that have reported these situations to security and they just stare, turn around and walk away, useless security at even that.
@@Kishanth.J private security for if they were transit police they would be able to deal with it appropriately and not just observe and report.
There's been a HUGE Increase of vagrants running around all over the southside rummaging through neighborhood dumpsters, breaking into apartments to sleep into the lobbys. There's also been a big increase in car break-ins and bike thefts. This is becoming a serious PISS OFF!
then move away. it will never stop lmao
@@oglostingaming easier said then done. edmonton is this mans home its hard to just leave were your from.
Why is it that every time there’s an issue of crime being “mental health” or drug-related anywhere in Canada, everyone make it seem like their the victim. People say, “oh more consumption sites, better support for them, etc…” But in reality, they do damage either way. The general public and consumers should be top priority, we WORK and pay TAXES to live and have the right to safety. Look at the LRT systems even in some 3rd world countries, yeah sure their transit system is bad, but in some ways safer than Edmonton’s LRT stations.
Those counties have top security measures because crime rate in those counties are high. The government and safety enforcers in those counties have so much authority that criminals are faced with fear. Those counties know how to divide the working class and good contributors of society from the non-contributing citizens.
I’m from one of those counties, and I’ve noticed that the junkies and homeless in this city have major balls to do whatever they want. They don’t fear anyone, and you know why because the people and the government allow them to, they are always painted to be “the victims.” Lol they need authority and they need to be put to where they belong. They are draining out money from the working class and polluting the safety in the city and everywhere they go.
“They need to be put where they belong” I’m interested to hear where that is… because if you have a real answer for that then congrats you just solved homelessness…
Most ‘Third-World cities have better public transit systems than Edmonton…!
As for the Asian mega-cities like Seoul, they are so advanced that Edmonton can NEVER catch up or compare in any way…!
Pursuant to another poster’s comment that an outside agency be brought in to run the ETS system, I agree - except I would choose Seoul’s Metro/Subway/ Bus organization over Japan/Tokyo…!
If you need more info, comment and I will respond.
3rd world country means "non-NATO or USSR country' therefore your comment about third world countries having better transit systems is completely baseless and irrelevant, not to mention inaccurate.
@@oglostingaming
You’re not very bright, are you!
You obviously fail to grasp some of the subtleties of the English Language, especially concepts like Irony/sarcasm (Are you a native speaker; or were you just bad at English in school?)
My Third World reference was HYPERBOLE - which is ‘exaggeration FOR EFFECT’!!!
Sorry you didn’t get the memo…!!!
@Robert Cross
I tried to do just that, but I’m the wrong colour, wrong sex, wrong age, and am not Woke so I didn’t really have shot…!
Same thing happening on Winnipeg Transit. Homeless, intoxicated, meth addicted people just jumping on the buses without paying, acting out, sleeping, leaving garbage all over, one even shooting up on a bus I was on recently. They have taken over the bus shelters all over Winnipeg also. Bus drivers are somewhat protected by a shield, but what about the paying customers? Enough is enough already time for these cities to take action to protect the citizens so they can have a safe security transit experience.
Vancouver has Transit Cops they Cary Guns and Don’t tolerate. Unfortunately we’re in a new era where middle Class are about to become Poor. Expect much much worse to come.
good luck with that lol
Stay strapped, works better and is far cheaper imo
After 8 years of living in Edmonton, I finally moved to Sherwood Park, where potholes are almost non-existent, people are nice to each other and I pay close to $1,000 less in property taxes. Vote with your feet people, if you don't like the way it is in Edmonton, consider moving to one of the many satellite cities around it, St. Albert, Sherwood Park, Spruce Grove. The city might just finally do something when it is losing a huge chunk of its tax base by people moving out of it. It is unlikely that public opinion will change much as the status quo is very much alive, both in the political leadership and the city management.
many = 3
@@imoutbye Leduc, Beaumont, Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, Devon, Fort Saskatchewan, St. Albert, Sherwood Park, the options are endless lol
@@gabrielzeng2928 hahahahaha Blows my mind how much Albertans and edmontonians lie to themselves and over hype that province/cities. All boring suburban towns. and you listed all over them. Endless. hahaha
My advice. Leave Alberta. period.
Nothing will be done because woke ideology is incharge of the city.
its disgusting. Its not just the LRT. Its all of downtown edmonton and its spreading. The city is falling to pieces
How about passes that open doors to the pedways and trains so you can't enter unless you've paid your fare? Yes it would cost more money but keep people that aren't paying out. It should have been like that from the beginning
Like Toronto.
Transit is ONLY a very small part of the entire issue, time to end our sanctuary city status, cut off their $1650 a month AISH payments and move them right along, it is not my responsibility nor the cities to provide ANYONE with a home. We need the mental health hospitals reopened and we need those people placed here
this is what happens when criminals don't face hard punishment. The consequences of years of permissive justice
This is what happens when drug addicts are not treated like human beings. They begin to not act human. This is on the city and not the law enforcement. Mental health and addictions counselling needs to skyrocket if we want to fix this problem.
inaccurate af but ok
@@tattannaknight2193 this is on neither the city nor the police. it's the sole responsibility of the individuals who participate in this type of behaviour.
@@tattannaknight2193 Anyone is responsible of their actions and has to face the consequences of their act. Neither the city or anybody else force these people to take their first dose. The huge amount of money allocated to treat these people isn't use to else where. Cancer patient unlike drug addict did choose what happens to them.
How much? What? Did you think this was a story about America? Looool
Got to feel bad for that poor girl. You would swear that security at stations is just there to give out fines for mask infractions
Why would the city care? Cleaning this up costs money, taxing and fining the hell out of honest hard workers is where the money is at.
Seriously. Those people in yellow vests don't deter a damn thing. I take transit myself but certainly wouldn't want my wife and child going by themselves.
they said "Vancouver's transit is much safer" that is because you can't enter the Vancouver transit if you do not pay. here in Edmonton no one watches you if you pay or not so people feel free to do what they please
Aaaaand there’s hastings
Spend money and build barriers to bar off people who does not even pay to enter the transit at all ! It is your fault
It got worse under sohi, guy would rather take photo ops in childrens clothing than cleaning up the streets. Gonna get worse under him.
This is the new social program. Shut down counseling and rehabilitation services, and use the funds to build a means of distributing the problem across the city.
Perfect. It seems like the plan is working really well.
shutting down counseling and rehabilitation services, and using the funds to give rich people tax breaks. the conservative dream.
Edmonton Police and Edmonton Mayor should be held accountable. Financially.
Stop voting liberals
The families need to be held accountable for their own offsprings behaviors.
Edmonton mayor is useless
Blaming a politician and not the criminal? that makes no sense...
and they want everyone to use public transit lol no thanks freak show
City council too busy building bike lanes for a city under snow 9 months of the year.
I took public transit in Edmonton, that one time. When all of the next three buses I could have used to get relatively close to home all went out of service AT 6PM, I called a cab. There's nothing that works about the transit system, unless you count the nice LRT's so nanny's can get to the Richie Rich neighbourhoods in the SW.
Been like this for years.
The drug use is worse.
Yup the LRT is not safe any more .
Many times I see the trains and stations used as a hotel and a drug house smoking meth injection of needles its disgusting can't call Edmonton home
Cowardly politicians & police dont want to challenge the vagrants & drug users
The addiction populations need help, but now they are doing whatever they want to do in the public: Sleeping inside ETS facilities, and even taking drug too. Not wearing mask, not paying and request a transfer, the bus drivers satisfy them anyway. They already getting what they want, but how about us peaceful ETS users, we are not feeling safe and not being protected. We are tax payers!
The weather is getting better. Stop giving free rides to vagrants. Now.
I live in Calgary and transit is my main way of getting around as I don’t drive and the police really need to do something about those issues with Edmonton’s LRT
Isn't Calgary bad now, visited there while back couldn't believe how bad it has gotten around subway stops, groups druggies everywhere
This is what happens when you live in a city where the relationships between the police and the city council has become so bad that even with the 4% budget increase the police still won't do anything.... they don't do break and enter calls anymore , they don't deal with homeless or people under the influence drugs or alcohol . They don't respond to car accidents and really don't do any traffic enforcement anymore including speed traps and check stops . So can someone tell me what the police are doing ? The relationship with the police started to sour over the lose of photo Rader cash cow and has just gotten worse . Then you have the city council in this story passing the responsibilities onto the provincial government, which is an absolute joke ..... people until you make your voice heard this will not change , your taxes going to pay the police and these bums at city council who don't want to admit they have screwed the relationship to the absolute joke it is now and it's the people who get screwed. The city council keeps pushing these lrt lines into people's neighborhoods with the guarantee the crime in those neighborhoods will sky rocket . Will you or your senior parents be the next victim pushed on to the train tracks ? And the journalists need to take some blame by not addressing these problems in the paper regularly enough to make the city council do something about the problem???
they got a budget cut, not a budget increase. wherever you are getting your information, your source is bad.
@@oglostingaming The EPS budget was slated to increase by $11.9 million in 2022 to nearly $395.8 million, up from $383.8 million in 2021.
@Robert Cross That's all you got ? They came for an intoxicated driver car for you one time ? Try running a business on Whyte Ave right now .
What is scary is that I can copy and paste into any Vancouver forums. However, we are the lost cause -- not you guys. You guys should be able to remove such cancer.
@Robert Cross 🤣
The world is never safe to begin with, just be cautious around you and help other people if they are being harassed or in trouble. And, don't forget to be kind
I have been flying back and forth to Edmonton as I live in Toronto and my daughters lives with their mom in Edmonton… the transit system in Edmonton is a big disappointment… not only it’s confusing to use.. the service is not reliable… the city should invest in improving their system and expand more trains that goes to west and east corridors and for Christ sake… a better connection to your airport!!! $60 Uber from Edmonton airport to west Edmonton mall is not cool at all!! It will really help people like me who don’t live in Edmonton to move cheaply within the city!! That why even if there’s a lot of complaints about TTC!! It’s the best in the country
Similar situation. There is a shuttle bus for $5 from airport to south common. But all the other issues. For sure. Brought my kids home from Waterloo where I live. Tried the transit thing with them. I was genuinely concerned for their safety. Originally thinking it would be a good experience for them. Never again unless it's mid day, weekday.
How come people that dont pay can get in the transit stations and on the trains. Vancouver you need a compass card to enter. The solution to allow LRT/ Bus stations to become homeless shelters isnt worth it if its jeopardizing publics safety!! I was assualted twice last year on the LRT. This is ridiculous.
I actually turned down employment well paid employment doing security for the LRT because of the current state of it
I felt more safe on a bus in Los Angeles. Clean up Edmonton.
In the US this is a huge problem as well. The problem will continue to get worse until people are incarcerated and/or committed to mental hospitals. People involved in the manufacture, and distribution should suffer the death penalty. I know this is brutal, but the problem has grown to the point where people have to be afraid of breaking the law due to consequences.
move to the Philippines. you'd fit right in over there with that government.
@@oglostingaming why are you replying to every comment trying to defend criminals?
As if education and social work somehow can't solve this, you jump straight to death and fear tactics. How terrifying society would be if you were in charge
Time for Canada to do like the Philippines, Singapore and China and put drug-traffickers and users 6 feet under.
@@shauncameron8390im pretty sure they just murder whoever they want to there and then call them a drug dealer afterwards... but yeah lets endorce fascism.... smh
The fabric seats of Edmonton LRT are basically like Diapers Sponges for the entire homeless community. Absolutely purely disgusting.
I was attacked in transit. Cops didn’t do anything
Between the severe security cutbacks and the privatization of the custodian services to the stations it's not surprising this is happening and it all started a few years before the pandemic happened. No one want's to work for Bee Clean or some other private custodian contractor at minimum wages and no benefits yet assume all the physical risks of a police officer. Use the system on a couple of occasions in 2020 and what I saw was shockingly different from when I used to work down town. It's a cesspool. Can't believe the news is talking about this so late after the problems started.
When my option is taking transit with my child means risking covid exposure, risking assult, encountering drug use, likely encountering aggression, and the trip taking three times as long as driving. The $14 round trip in transit fare will go in my gas tank and I will drive instead.
Meanwhile in calgary there’s stabbings every few weeks at or near the stations and city council is like “sOOO what ShOuLD cArgReEEs OFFiCaL bIRD bEE ?”
Why are there no police on sight? That's weird
because if the police try and do their job it'll be racial profiling.
You elected this party of crime ..
Welcome to Sohi's Edmonton. They Mayor could care less!
Can't say I ever saw that much crap on the TTC. Toronto for the win.
Thirty years ago and more.....i took LRT from near Southgate, to Nait. BACK THEN, IT WAS GOOD, CLEAN and 'normal.'' They were digging, the tunnel for LRT beside high level bridge at the time, and building across the river. This last 30 years (generation), is a proving point, for human beings. The personal responsibility, of each citizen of planet earth, is to be RESPECTFULL OF ALL AUTHORITY. This now, over those last 30 years, IS THE CAUSE of the degradation of all societies, on OUR planet. Once, us baby-boomers are gone, there will be no one RESPONSIBLE ENOUGH, MATURE ENOUGH, EMOTIONALLY MATURE IN ADULT LONG-TERM LOGIC AND VISION, TO sustain ANY INFRASTRUCTURE......sorry folks, but these facts are getting worse, each month. There is no way, to RE - ESTABLISH BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES.....everyone is just 'socializing'' on their many entertainment devices. Manufactured fake, processed '' foods'......laced with 6 types of sodium, MSG, and nitrates, sulfates, smoke, and many other dangerous things....shoddy manufactured products, use once throw away....buy again....repeat the loop. Garbage everywhere......parentless children,....can't you all see '' where this will go ''..............??? ADDICTIONS RAMPANT......homelessness......dying infrastructure. Edmonton, is always 'constructing'' something, digging, building/tearing down......for 30 or more years.....never FINISHING anything. I am very glad, i do not live anywhere 'near' that filthy city now. Good luck, and prayers for all.......
If he didn’t check on the man who was possibly having an overdose he could have left someone to die. People need social programs, not to be shamed. People need healthcare and housing. This is what happens with terrible government policy.
And what a shame and loss our society would have felt...
Every lowlife & drug addict gets a govt check 1ce/month. You give people free $ 4 drugs & to give them free time to roam around committing crime. Why not cut off the checks when they do crime?
i recently seen a homeless addict smoking fentanyl up stares and blowing the smoke into the direction of children mean while police down stairs giving a fine to an elderly lady for not having a fair great work Edmonton
They need to add turnstiles and payment for entry what is the point of paying for a fare when there is no checks in system. This will increase the cities revenues so they can better take care of the LRT system and actually fund some programs to treat homelessness
Security people must be well built, in their prime and well trained. If you are putting someone otherwise, then why put a security in the first place?
Yeah the fat old 55 year old lady or the 19 year old high school graduate, they just don't cry security.
What these skinny Somalians don't cut it?
Security they are afraid by themselves they don't want get in trouble with these people eitherwize they will get killed
Edmonton is a disgrace.
This also happen on public busses with kids on them..... Sadly
ya I took my niece and nephew by train one day to Southgate mall - from clarview I want them to experience something new my niece who is 11 got so frightened she refused to return by the train so I took them back by the bus which was much better. it is sad
I like how a year ago everyone was whining about the cops and calling to defunding them, eventually a chunk of the budget was taken from the EPS. Now this. This is what happens, now live with it and suck it up.
You realize there was already a drug problem before any "defunding" took place?
@@AlCatSplat And yet they still defunded them. And FYI, it has gotten worse over the last couple of years.
@@AlCatSplat Stupid comment
Welp, then EPS can live with me defending myself lol
When I was a kid I took the lrt on my own to school. These days i would never let my kid do the same, I’d rather drive them.
Been harassed on both bus and lrt it was so bad bought a car because it's unsafe to use public transportation
In Calgary is WAAAAAAAAY worst...CPS and peace officers are really expensive lrt furniture..IMHO..
Cancel the valley line and green line until the problem is solved in both Edmonton and calgary
Did not know Edmonton had an LRT system.
LOL
Yes but we have bike lanes.... :)
We need to stop helping them when they od, this is absurd!
Wow, let’s not help human beings in distress! The open drug use is precisely because the province closed the sites. The drug issues are complicated and often caused by untreated trauma. Our health care system especially mental health care needs to be stepped up and combined with supervised drug sites we can start curbing these issues.
It's not just passengers or people hanging out at stations. It's the drivers too. I was doing transit from the airport to home with my kids under ages 12. Had to wait at City Center to transfer. Bus driver pulls up, and see's two indigenous without masks, and immediately drives off. I tried to wave him down to let us get on but nope. We had to hang out around some sketchy folk for another 45 minutes. Sadly I won't take transit with my kids again on weekends or evenings.
what a pos of a driver
Shut it down at night & watch how far it will change in a matter of weeks, test the patience.. when they return after you reopen during operating hours, be ready with more security, fine trespassers and squatters for breaking the law.. its simple.. no one should feel bad or guilty for people who choose to sell and do drugs in public.. everyone should feel safe.. we don't want our children picking up dirty needles
It’s bin that way for years and years !!! Can’t blame the pandemic for this are government is to blame !!!!!
I was coming home late from work at the end of February during a particularly brutally cold night. I wanted to take the steps down into the LRT around Bay Enterprise Square to warm up, but there were people huddled in the bottom of these stairwells using drugs, and completely blocking access. The worst part is that nothing was being done. No cops, no security, no nothing.
What has changed? It used to be decent and I never saw anything like this. Did our previous Mayor do more for the homeless? Or do more for Security at the LRT? Research what changed and bring back the old ways.
Less jobs, inflation, homeless mentally ill people, increase drug issues
^ that and the pandemic
Calgary transit stations aren't any better
Once again victims don't matter these people are more concerned about hurting the criminals feelings lmao
Those security guards are just using their phone while them homeless are doing drugs in the closest ctrain station here in calgary
This happened yesterday
calgary’s mayor is a joke
To observe n report by texting...n u know what. They will text back asking you to describe what the culprit is wearing. Who got the safe time to even text so much in snail pace?
The problem is the security service. The security officers are NOT intervening or patrolling the LRT stations as they should. I've personally seen security officers avoid drug users and squatters, preferring to stay away. Frankly, most security officers look like they don't want to be there at all! There's a serious security management problem , IMO.
I rely on transit to get to and from school and finding people shooting up drugs in the elevator so you awkwardly apologize and take the stairs is a standard at least weekly occurrence
Government legalizing possession of hard drugs. It will be worse.
Same on the LRT security and major, who takes this thing so normal and do nothing to stop this kind of abusing and unsafe place to travel. Put those addict and aggressive people to rehabilitation and educate them
Make bigger jails and lock these people up for life..
Not as prisoners but in a large enclosure, give them facilities, grass to walk on etc.
But they are already isolated so highly doubt they will see any difference
Maybe you want to live in the Soviet Union, if you love gulags so much: looks like the Soviet Union is coming back, so maybe it is time for you to move
Great. Now let’s spread this stuff across the old west end. Brilliant.
Hope things get better their
THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS PEOPLE ARE NOT MOVING TO ALBERTA FROM OTHER PROVINCES. I LIVED IN EDMONTON FOR 5YEARS IT WAS SO NICE. I AM GOING TO CALL MY DAUGHTERS FAMILY COME BACK TO TORONTO FOR SAFTY