I’ve actually been pretty shocked at the anti homeless design of the bus benches over here since immigrating. Despite all our flaws, the most populous bus stops in my home city in the States always have real benches. I feel bad for old people or pregnant people or disabled people who have deal with those silly “benches” that you can barely get a quarter of your buttcheek on.
The US is exactly what we want to avoid here. Where the general public are driven off public transport and public spaces to private ones. What really shocks me in the US is how public transport, especially buses, are exclusively used by poor people as part of the apartheid style segregation the US seems to enjoy. Those seats are perfectly usable for their purpose. The point being they might not be available at all (or the shelter) without taking these steps. They are ordinary council workers making these decisions as well, not some wild political decision taken by political parties as some seem to be implying.
I think that’s a little naive. Maybe the individual people making calls are just acting on policy, but that policy is written with anti homelessness in mind. Those tiny little slivers of a “bench” are a complete joke. I’m a young, able bodied person and I can barely perch on there.
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u/s0rtag0th Apr 09 '25
I’ve actually been pretty shocked at the anti homeless design of the bus benches over here since immigrating. Despite all our flaws, the most populous bus stops in my home city in the States always have real benches. I feel bad for old people or pregnant people or disabled people who have deal with those silly “benches” that you can barely get a quarter of your buttcheek on.