{"id":84664,"date":"2023-03-16T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84664"},"modified":"2023-03-15T07:17:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T12:17:34","slug":"sartre-was-so-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84664","title":{"rendered":"Sartre Was So Close<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Hell is other people”, said the French existentialist philosopher. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Close, but no cigar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hell is<\/em>, however, most things “public”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like the behavior in public waiting rooms on public transit lines by certain members of the public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metro Transit is shutting down the indoor waiting area at the Hennepin Avenue transit station due to what I’m going to start referring to as Southside Cardio: Drug Abuse, Prostitution and Street Crime”. :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Over the last couple of years, these places have become more and more of a problem for us,” [MTC spokesman Drew] Kerr said. “There aren’t a lot of locations like this that are open right now for the public to just be and to stay warm. And that’s not what they’re intended for.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metro Transit<\/a> officials said in an announcement Tuesday the closure of the Uptown station is also due to property damage and litter. The space will be reopened later in the year when contracted security officers are in place at the station and five other locations. Those stations include the Vertical Circulation Building\/Central Station in downtown St. Paul, the Blue Line Lake Street\/Midtown and Franklin Avenue stations, the Chicago-Lake Transit Center and the Brooklyn Center Transit Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The building near the Central Station in St. Paul already closed in December after a double homicide…”The amount of open drug use is the largest thing right now. Homelessness, as well. And we’re not social workers,” Timlin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across the transit system, crime rose by 54 percent between 2021 and 2022. Metro Transit officials said last year, about a quarter of the calls for service were at the six stations where they’re bringing in security.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The crime will move to the neighborhoods, of course. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Hell is other people”, said the French existentialist philosopher. Close, but no cigar. Hell is, however, most things “public”. Like the behavior in public waiting rooms on public transit lines by certain members of the public. Metro Transit is shutting down the indoor waiting area at the Hennepin Avenue transit station due to what I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minneapolis","category-trains-and-automobiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84665,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84664\/revisions\/84665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}