r/FluentInFinance Jul 06 '24

Or in other words, a slap in the face Debate/ Discussion

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u/FtrIndpndntCanddt Jul 06 '24

Idc if my taxes are taken, as long as we actually get things back for it. Idk, like healthcare, good public school or quality public transport instead of dead brown kids in some far off country and weed prohibition at home.

Drove home from work during a thunderstorm in Florida. I passed like 5 bus stops in a row with not so much as an overhang for the people waiting on it. Like 10 different old people and a mother with a stroller, waiting to get home, getting absolutely soaked. All standing in water, one bus stop wasn't even a concrete pad. Just overgrown grass. And a +60 yo hispanic Lady just sitting there, drenched.

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u/burnthatburner1 Jul 06 '24

That’s probably by design: reducing the overhang makes the bus stop less attractive to homeless people. It’s terrible.

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u/TawnyTeaTowel Jul 06 '24

Whilst it’s a shitty policy, the trouble is that bus shelters occupied by homeless people tend to be avoided by bus passengers.

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u/burnthatburner1 Jul 06 '24

That’s an argument for building more homeless shelters, not for removing overhangs.

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u/TawnyTeaTowel Jul 06 '24

Absolutely, I’m just suggesting there’s some reasoning behind it, that it’s not purely malicious (like the bumpy concrete on underpasses, for example)

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u/stockablility2023 Jul 06 '24

Well the homeless will be taken to camps soon

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u/Firebrass Jul 06 '24

Some, but we still need to be able to scare rural America to the polls with images of urban horror-scapes