Around where I live, there are basically no seats in train stations anymore.
You get dropped off at a train station, the next train doesn't arrive for another hour, and there's nowhere to sit down.
Sitting on stairs or the ground is forbidden.
The only place with enough seats is a lounge area that you can only enter by scanning an expensive yearly subscription ticket that only makes financial sense for business travellers.
Or in a restaurant where you have to buy something to sit, of course.
Sounds a lot like the US. Homelessness is a problem without a solution that can be monetized. The only answer the government has is to completely eradicate any social comforts like park benches, public transit, or third places that don’t require you to buy a coffee to just sit and wait.
God forbid someone sleeps on a park bench because then the city will install anti-homeless chairs that are so uncomfortable nobody sits in them anyways.
But what can I say, richest country in the world or something.
8 Comments
kamenlady@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 67d
Nice, they have pee holes
Kaput@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 67d
Too far back. Thats a farthole.
fizzbang@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 67d
Achyually it’s a cloaca
mech@feddit.org · 6 pts · 67d
Around where I live, there are basically no seats in train stations anymore.
You get dropped off at a train station, the next train doesn't arrive for another hour, and there's nowhere to sit down.
Sitting on stairs or the ground is forbidden.
The only place with enough seats is a lounge area that you can only enter by scanning an expensive yearly subscription ticket that only makes financial sense for business travellers.
Or in a restaurant where you have to buy something to sit, of course.
mursejoy@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 67d
Sounds a lot like the US. Homelessness is a problem without a solution that can be monetized. The only answer the government has is to completely eradicate any social comforts like park benches, public transit, or third places that don’t require you to buy a coffee to just sit and wait.
God forbid someone sleeps on a park bench because then the city will install anti-homeless chairs that are so uncomfortable nobody sits in them anyways.
But what can I say, richest country in the world or something.
eayavas@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 67d
Great eyes and also color grading
mursejoy@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 67d
Thank you, it’s a basic shot but I thought it turned out. I enjoy photos of the monotony.
nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 67d
A train that will take you far away?