I passed by a bus stop yesterday and there is now a no trespassing sign and a no loitering sign up. That seems odd for a public bus stop.
Trespassing what? Are even bus stops private property in the US?
Why put a no trespassing sign on a bus stop
Submitted 3 months ago by Kintarian@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Yeah my city has a lot of homeless around bus stops.
Is a bummer but it makes other people avoid those places like the plague and gives further bad names to public transport.
Kintarian@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I get that but they take away everything someone owns, prevent them from sitting or sleeping anywhere, throw them in jail or put them on a bus and send them to another state. I don’t see how any of this solves the problem.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Yeah thats terrible
Sunsofold@lemmings.world 3 months ago
If the homeless all end up in prison, there are no more homeless, and a fresh supply of profitable slave laborers.
ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
sometimes people just go to home despot and buy signs and put them up.
i’ve it a lot with “no parking” signs on public streets when they want to reserve parking for themselvesMagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
home despot
This is the perfect typo for this post lol
Mike_The_TV@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It is literally so they can charge homeless people taking shelter there.
unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth 3 months ago
I wouldn't even say that it's to be able to charge homeless people - how are they going to pay? It wouldn't be particularly smart financially.
It's more about just not having them there. Say what you want, but if a bus stop reeks, it makes it much less attractive to take public transit. Of course, it just moves the problem somewhere else - but the transit authority doesn't have to worry about it too much anymore.
Kintarian@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s just mean
DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Welcome to people. Instead of fixing the homelessness, governments would prefer to make the situation worse while doing their best to ignore it.
thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Always remember homelessness isn’t a problem in America’s society, it a feature of it. To keep people in line and to fear going on strike/fighting back. They like to keep a bit around to keep the society working Out of fear of becoming homeless, and throw the “bad” ones into slavery (aka prison)