How a City in Love with Transit is Killing Public Transit

"Soft on Crime" ruins everything. Wanton Fentanyl Smoking Has Made Seattle Public Transit Rolling HazMat Sites - The Tatum Report

It had to happen that Seattle city leaders’ soft-on-crime slime would eventually ooze onto city busses. C. Douglas Golden, at The Western Journal points out, “Smoking on public transit hasn’t been tolerated for years — yet, in one of America’s most liberal cities, it’s so common that trains and buses are becoming toxic.”

The Seattle Times reported, “Bus and train operators say so many people are smoking drugs on Seattle-area transit that the fumes, and volatile behavior, create a hazardous work environment that discourages ridership.”

In 2019 there were 44 drug incidents (not defined) on King County (Seattle area) Transit. In 2020 73 incidents. In 2021 there were 398 reports.

Addicts place meth, heroin, and/or fentanyl on an aluminum foil strip, then heat it with a lighter. Users then use a straw to suck in the vapors (Warning: possessing a plastic straw. Now, that’s a serious crime in Seattle).

The ambient smoke then wafts throughout the coach, exposing passengers and drivers to these toxic clouds. Fourteen transit operators have reported “headaches, dizziness or irritated breathing.” A minimum of six drivers have requested they be relieved before their shift ended.

That is not what I would want to sit next to while trying to get around Seattle.

Between defunding the cops, and hamstringing their ability to do anything once they do arrive, the problem is not going to get better anytime soon.

When you abandon the rule of law, everything crumbles.