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TransLink defends SkyTrain safety after latest attack
May 5, 2008 |
TransLink is defending it's actions to increase public safety along SkyTrain routes in reaction to a recent assault, and criticism from the group 'Families Against Crime and Trauma' (FACT), which says TransLink's board is not taking ridership safety seriously.
FACT is upset with the lack of uniformed transit police officers patrolling 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at high-risk stations. Ken Hardie with TransLink says there's nearly 24-hour security along the SkyTrain line in one form or another, aside from the time when the system shuts down.
Hardie says TransLink has no plans to have 24-hour transit police patrol, and no promise of 24 hour police patrols at SkyTrain stations was ever made. He says it was a consideration, but it's been decided that it wouldn't be the best use of resources.
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