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The heated bus stop in front of the Kelly House on Temple Street is being consistently used as a homeless camp, with a half-dozen regulars there almost every night.
Nothing against the homeless, but the hygiene is getting worse and worse. With the urine smell so bad, I can't imagine anyone is still using this bus stop during the day.
Quite surprised that the Town Green or Operation Nightlife hasn't addressed this problem. Can someone please help? This isn't an occasional occurrence; instead it's night after night after night.
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GregL (Người dùng đã đăng ký)
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Win (Người dùng đã đăng ký)
The heat has been turned off in this bus shelter. Town Green has approached the business behind the bus stop to clean up their patio area on their side of the black fence behind the bus shelter and the Clean team cleans this bus shelter no less than twice a day. Please continue to report problems if/when you see them.
Win
BenHV (Người dùng đã đăng ký)
LCI Citywide Helper (Chính thức đã xác nhận)
TT&P?
Town Green?
Được thừa nhận Win (Người dùng đã đăng ký)
Town Green addresses this issue almost daily with deodorizer for the stench, we power-steam clean this bus stop weekly when the temperature allows, our clean team cleans inside this bus shelter 7days a week with a pan and broom and our safety ambassadors do "wake-ups" of these people first thing in the morning every day. These people know our schedule and inhabit the shelter right after our Ambassador night shift ends. Town Green is in favor of redesigning this bus stop, the 55 Church Street shelters and the Shelter at the corner of Elm and Temple Street. They all have the same issues.
-Win
BB (Người dùng đã đăng ký)
What would the design be looking to tackle? Less comfortable sleeping areas? Maybe the SCF users could help with design suggestions.
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Win (Người dùng đã đăng ký)
More lighting is certainly helpful toward discouraging sleeping in the shelter.
A few more thoughts:
The fact that the shelter is fully enclosed makes it feel private and lends itself to being used as a bathroom, living room and sleeping area. Better sight lines into the bus shelter at the Kelly house would help....the wide concrete columns on each side of the shelter and the full glass and steel front obscure the view into the shelter until you are in front of it and It can be intimidating for people walking on the sidewalk not knowing if there are people in the shelter.
Seating that will easily allow for sleeping would help. I think of the narrow, rotating seats I've seen in San Franciso: http://www.superstock.co.uk/stock-photos-images/1566-0151717
Most of our shelters downtown are at most 3-sided and we don't have nearly as many maintenance problems.
Town Green would like to get this issue resolved as these shelters require a disproportionate amount of our resources.
-Win
Win (Người dùng đã đăng ký)
I meant, seating that will NOT allow for easy sleeping... my apologies.
-Win
Uncle Egg (Người dùng đã đăng ký)
Is there any way to lock it after the buses stop running? Perhaps at the end of the night there should be a shuttle bus to the homeless shelter.
I hate to think of forcing people out into the cold, but having homeless people live in the bus shelter inhibits others from using them and casts a pall on public transportation in general. If we can't provide basic, safe and warm accommodation for the poorest among us, then shame on us as a society.
Win (Người dùng đã đăng ký)
A lock would require some expensive work to install doors/gates that the City doesn't have in their budget. I've had the same thought and asked the question about limiting access.
I don't believe New Haven deserves any shame for our efforts in providing services for people in crisis. Our Ambassadors and our street outreach and engagement worker have found that most of the people using these bus shelters as an encampment choose to do so because they prefer not to follow the rules of our shelters and other programs in favor of partaking in drinking and other illegal activities.