Employee records dozens of homeless slumped in public rail system, the agency’s response is infuriating

A “shocking” video recently posted appeared to show dozens of homeless people using Seattle’s public transportation system as a shelter.

Seattle-based conservative talk show host Jason Rantz shared the video on Twitter Monday, noting that it was reportedly taken by a Sound Transit employee on May 2, at the Angle Lake station.

“A Sound Transit employee took a shocking video that shows approximately 30 homeless people using light rail as a homeless shelter. Why is this happening?” he tweeted.

“The unidentified employee walks the entire length of the light rail cars as homeless men and women are mostly slumped over, passed out. There appears to only be two paying customers on the light rail,” he reported.

Seattle is similar to many popular cities in the United States in that homelessness is a rising problem with no easy solution. Municipalities constantly try to strike a balance between appearing compassionate towards individuals who are struggling while at the same time keeping their city safe and attractive to tourists and newcomers.

A spokesperson from Sound Transit, Seattle’s public transportation agency, told the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH: “While most riders during the day are having a safe and reliable experience, problems are acute at times of lower ridership and when support staffing is lower, such as early in the morning and later in the evening.”

Rantz noted that “It’s unclear when the homeless enter the light rail, but the earliest they run is 5:00am, and do not operate overnight. That means the homeless enter early in the morning, making an unpleasant — and unsanitary — morning commute.”

There are measures that have been put in place by Sound Transit to prevent these situations from happening.

“At the end of the line, our security vendor is supposed to walk through the train and ask all riders to exit. This interaction also serves as a check on the rider’s welfare, to ensure that they are responsive. The security vendor failed to perform this duty in this case,” the spokesperson said.

It’s not unreasonable to expect a security vendor to clear a straggler or two out of a subway car at the end of the day but one can only imagine the experience of a city employee tasked with forcibly removing dozens of homeless individuals from a rail car in the middle of the night. The individuals seen in the video are clearly not interested in leaving and some are even unresponsive, perhaps due to drug use, as is common in these situations.

King County Metro, another public transportation system, recently had an issue where there was an unresponsive passenger still on a bus at the end of a shift. The passenger ended up being pronounced dead on the scene, Rantz reported.

The city of Seattle is reportedly committed to solving this problem and the Sound Transit spokesperson affirmed this by saying: “We have several efforts underway to try and address the challenges that the agency is experiencing on Link. They focus on centering compassion while ensuring the transit environment is physically and psychologically safe for both riders and operators.”

According to Rantz, the city’s public transport system has attempted to partner with King County’s Department of Community and Human Services Behavioral Health and Recovery Division.

“The agency does not intend to use law enforcement, as the Board of Directors does not trust police officers to act without bias and feels the criminal justice system is beyond reform,” he noted.

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15 thoughts on “Employee records dozens of homeless slumped in public rail system, the agency’s response is infuriating

  1. Gives a whole new meaning to the Great Train Robbery. All aboard the Felony Express destination a hospital if your lucky and the Dirt Nap if not.

  2. Dear employee: “Why is this happening”? Because YOU and your idiot neighbers voted for democrats!!!!!! SMH

    Hey BPR: Your new format and “F” macro SUCKS! Go back to the old ways or lose your base. IDIOTS!!!!

  3. I’m not catholic, but Bishop Sheen talked about ‘False compassion’ 60 years ago. He’d die if he knew what was happening now…

  4. We’re supposed to feel sorry for the folds of Seattle? You people gave this to yourselves with your decades long streak of voting demoncRAT. You deserve it. Wanna get rid of it? Elect ONLY non-democRAT candidates who put nation first.

  5. The next time one of those directors is assaulted, tell him to call a social worker.

    1. Not one director has ever set foot on public transportation! That’s for the peons.

  6. First of all if the people of Seattle are looking for sympathy I doubt you will get any from Texas. As the saying goes, “You Get What You Pay For.” Your Democrat/Liberal/Leftist/Socialist Government has been in power for Years, so you obviously Listen to their lies every year and then you vote them right back in even though they lied. So I guess you have 3 Options, 1. Stop riding the public transit, 2. Just close your eyes (and nose) and move on, or 3, now here a radical idea Vote the Turds Out.

  7. Hey- no sympathy here. Seattle-ites have voted smugly for all of these “virtuous” policies. Except for the indigent, the cost of housing has chased the middle class away and the wealthy don’t have to use public transit.

  8. Not to worry….Biden’s Bureau of Transportation Sanitation is reviewing the matter, said the newly appointed head of the Bureau of Disinformation. One of Biden’s bosses was overheard saying Comrads…”soon no one will be able to take care of themselves without our assistance. Our plan is working”.

  9. Vote Democrat, or live in a dem majority area, this is what you have to deal with. They love making life for others as miserable as their own.

  10. You’d think their first priority would be citizens safety not compassion to drug addict crackheads,,,,FJB,,,,,
    sympl1

    1. Hell, taxpayers are now on the hook for distribution of free NARCAN to anyone who wants it, in St. Louis county. My wife worked at he Department of Health, and ANYONE could come in and get a free dose or two. Parents who know their kids are using (but not caring enough to get them committed); the addicts themselves, they just gave it out like candy. What ever happened to survival of the fittest? These people contribute nothing to society, and would probably be better off dead, rather than a really painful death later on. Sorry to sound so cruel, but it was their choice to start using. No one seems to be accountable for their own actions anymore.

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