A busy transit center along Hennepin Avenue in the heart of Uptown Minneapolis will close its indoor waiting area temporarily due to challenges involved with “property damage, litter, and other unwanted behaviors,” according to an announcement from Metro Transit.
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Really? Choosing to close facilities over law enforcement?
Close all shelters for permanent. People do not deserve to get help. Many people will take advantage and doing shitty things.
There is a huge problem with homelessness and loitering especially at lake street station. I am a disabled user of the train and I have decided to shift my route because it is too dangerous to even ride the train anymore. So upsetting that metro transit police is not doing anything but hiring security officers which I doubt will be effective.
Security guards, with dogs.
And how much did we the tax payer pay for that huge indoor shelter that was just opened a few years ago??? And now its closed. typical demorats, love to just waste our money.
Don't demoncrats run this city? Asking for a friend ..😂😂😂
Frey said crime was down?!
closing this down will cure antisocial personality disorders in the area.
Bee Ell Emm strikes again!
It's the crazy homeless and blacks. They ruin everything.
Under cover officers on some busses needed FOR SURE.
Seems like lately we are in about a lot of things closing down because of the crime
You better be hiring Blackwater. This is what happens when your city is run by clowns. Minneapolis is dying.
Ok cool make way for more apartments get what you vote for 😜
Light rail is a crime cesspool. Each line loses over a million dollars a year due to non payment of fares
There’s already a huge problem with homelessness as is, especially in the antifa city
Vote communist again
Dropping like flys
So instead of outside security why don't they have inside security or a few officers inside
It's usually not crime with homeless people in my area it's other people starting crap with them I guess they should start building more homeless shelters to solve homeless problems
Undercover armed "safety officers" (disguised as street urchins) would help solve the crime problem..but as we all know that would be RACIST !
I won't take the LRT until the SWLRT project is completed..and that won't happen until the rein of "Queen dick".
I can understand the concern of homelessness and keeping warm during the winter season. But for people who are just trying to catch the bus and not be bothered is getting hard. I’ve seen so many bus hubs close because of drugs, violence, fighting, drinking, even trafficking. I’ve seen people smoking crack and doing other things I cannot even mention. Again, I understand the frustration, but so many people are ruining it for us riders who just want proper shelter to wait for the bus. That’s like the target downtown in which looks like capsule city with all the hygiene, soaps, feminine products stored away. And you have to an associate to get it for you. This is just getting ridiculous by the day. I am so sick of living in Minneapolis, I literally daydream about moving away everyday.
I bet black crime and needed measures city locations overlap a lot.
And you people keep electing Democrats!
Do ANY OF YOU know the definition of INSANITY??
I dont undersand why they cant have security gaurds in .nobody should habe to freeze.i understand crime being avoided.
Armed national guard at certain street corners would definitely help.
SF Metro Line try outside security guards at off hours but they had no authority to make arrest other then as a civilian with tons of liability to the guards and the criminals just ignored them!😮 They had to place limited SF transit police at rush hours only!
Rent-A-Cops have no authority to make arrests and all the troublemakers know that. Even elementary students know that. If they don't have a real badge they're more likely to be a victim than any help at all.
I met a 31 yr old white drug dealer at a bar in Nordeast who told me he sold to people on buses and bus stops all the time. Said he was from Hastings, was wearing a black trench coat and gawdy gold chain. Told him if I ever see him again I'd beat the shit out of him.
Instead of putting more security you close a transit shelter putting riders at risk of the weather
Those little tiny bus shelters are not protecting anybody from Rain, Sleet or Snow not even from very strong wind and the only thing you can do is stand straight up ! Every decision they try and make against the homeless men-women suddenly affects many of their law abiding passengers the most and the only thing they have to do is come up with a solution for the Homeless People throughout Minneapolis-St.Paul !
Our traitor walz has set our state for potential votes for democratic leeches roaming freely, waiting for their free 💞 living checks, and meal tickets. These are losers and freeloaders from around the world.