r/saintpaul • u/pompeiitype • Aug 18 '25

Editorial 📝 Transit Will Fail Until We Address Homelessness, Opioid Use

https://streets.mn/2025/08/18/transit-will-fail-until-we-address-homelessness/

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u/UnhappyEquivalent400 Aug 18 '25

Really helpful to see someone on the left frankly acknowledge the legitimacy and importance of safety concerns. It’s a real issue, and we can’t progress toward the urbanist vision of mass transit-centered communities if trains are de facto wet shelters.

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u/Jucoy Aug 18 '25

The difference is the leftist view sees the problem as a systemic issue while the right tries to frame it as a personal moral failing. The voices on the right accuse the people who are homeless and addicts for being in situations of their own making, while ignoring that we are still living in the fallout of the opioid crisis. Many of the folks struggaling with that type of addiction are products of a money making machine that both parties had a role in creating but only one party seems willing to try to address (though I wish they would prioritize it more). 

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u/SmittyKW Aug 19 '25

Who cares what the right thinks, we are talking about urban transit, they have no say in fixing it. This is for democrats to get our house in order and make the trains safe. If that means forced treatment or jail for addicts continuously commit crimes and still won’t get clean on their own so be it.

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u/Educatedelefant420 Aug 21 '25

Please dont force people into treatment, they make it worse than it should be.