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Originally Posted by curves2000
You think business men and women who are working on billion dollar deals are stepping over drug addicts, dodging people lighting themselves and others on fire, having sex in public areas and carrying weapons fit for a war?? Not a chance, they are moving quickly and efficiently through world class stations in order to make a Brussels to Paris bullet train in 80 minutes for 29 Euros that runs like clockwork.
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Beyond the ridiculous hyperbole about what the average person experiences taking transit, you could not have picked two worse examples lol. Brussels is in the midst of eerily similar issues to Calgary in terms of problems relating to the intersection between public transit and unhoused people, and the french government is currently shipping unhoused people out of Paris because the situation has become so unsustainable.
This isn’t just a Calgary issue to deal with, it’s a global issue, and it might be as bad in Europe on average as anywhere else in the world, in ways that make Calgary’s issues pale in comparison.
That doesn’t excuse council or suggest it isn’t an issue worth dealing with by any means, I just think people who think Calgary’s issues are some sort of extreme would likely faint almost anywhere else (there are some countries where these issues are much less prevalent, but I don’t think you’ll find them in Europe).