ETS rant/musings/concerns

Hey all, I’m just wondering what we can do as human that lives here that will pursued council to do something other than fare hikes? I was just on a southbound train to century when this lovely encounter happened:

A person got on at Churchill or central? At first it seemed like she was talking to someone she knew then she just starts yelling about her phone getting taken? Then people start to move away because we just want to get to our destination and not get harassed. Then she sits by a lady and keeps trying to harass her and the lady was super cool didn’t engage didn’t say anything (the level of calm she showed was incredible). The train is moving and then the person yelling manually opens the door and the lady next to me yelps and the lady that opened the door is like why are you scared? She closes the door, lrt conductor goes move away from the doors because we’re a few cars back then we get to government station and she gets off and we’re stalled there for a bit because the lrt conductor just thought someone was leaning against the door, he fixes it and we’re on our merry way. The lrt conductor thanks us for taking ETS.

And I know this is a TAME incident that happened 😭. I’ve seen open drug use on the train, people are using at lrt stations and using it as public washrooms because where else are they going to go?

I know this issue gets discussed a lot in this sub because it’s a huge issue and I know people say if the person wants to change they’ll seek the resources to change and i believe this too because yesterday morning on my way to downtown I saw someone sleeping at century and when I was coming home he was still sleeping there.

I don’t know maybe I just need to vent. If I see people using or starting to use I go and find a security guard to hopefully prevent them from using and reacting badly. I know security guards can’t do much. I try to view them as just people who are someone’s somebody. I also want to be able to take transit to work and not be afraid of getting into an altercation or seeing someone past out and people trying to get them naloxone.

ETS is increasing fares on Feb 1st, ridership is up and these issues are only getting worse. I’ve tried emailing my councillor about other issues in the past only to get a reply from their assistant.

I don’t know, the city feels heavy. Thank you for reading. Also sorry for the grammar mistakes at the beginning I can’t get my phone to cooperate to edit it 😭