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Originally Posted by MatsNaslund
As for the Public Behaviour Bylaw, there's a reason why downtown is not a place where you can live and raise a family. Just in front of the Centre street station and City Hall Station there are so many crack deals happening out in the open. There's so many aggressive panhandlers. Just east of City Hall on the otherside of the fence east of 3 st E. (near crack-cul-de-sac) there are so many panhandelers, homeless, criminals, drug junkies, prostitutes, etc. Usually there are several people sleeping underneath the 4th ave flyover. One morning I came to Centre Street station at 6 am via train and saw 6 people sleeping in sleeping bags. One of them started to follow me and asked for change. I told him to get a job and if he didn't stop asking me that I would let my knuckles do the talking. He stopped bothering me immediately. Another place where you see this kind of crap is at 8 st station. If you like this type of stuff in the city center then we should keep the existing laws. If not then we should see that city council passes that bylaw so that garbage like this can be removed from our downtown. If it were up to me the Cecil, The mustard seed, and drop in center would all be relocated to Forst Lawn (aka the dump) or closed down for good.
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How about, instead of relocating the problem to a neighbourhood that's "a dump," or shutting down services designed to help the lower class, we try to fix the problem? I reckon that would be a better solution.
I honestly don't believe Calgary will ever achieve a remotely efficient transit system. The three-branched layout doesn't make sense, and serves only to alienate large regions in the NE, N, SE, S, and W. And that is something very unfixable. As a regular Ctrain passenger myself, I just learn to accept that sometimes it will be crowded and/or delayed. But, it could always be worse.