More reports of violence over the weekend at the bus terminal at Union Station has RTD looking for solutions.
“Obviously there is a lot of crime out there right now, and this is societal problem,” said Tina Jaquez, RTD spokesperson. “We want to make our system safe for our customers and our employees, and that’s what we’re dedicated to doing.
“We tend to use that word homeless and lump a whole bunch of people into a single category, but there’s different you know all kinds of different categories of experience of homelessness,” said Vincent Atchity of Mental Health Colorado. “Some homelessness is driven by those kind of emergent economic circumstances, were due to job loss or other kinds of actualities people, families, you know, find themselves without a place to live.
Ridership on RTD lines dropped dramatically during the pandemic to about half what it was in 2019. The latest figures from January of this year show a one-third increase over January 2021. But with more people taking refuge in public spaces and a lower number of riders, the number of people with problems may be more apparent.
But getting troubled people into housing is hard, particularly if there are people with a combination of problems that includes drug use.
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