ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — After a flurry of criticism over the weekend, the decision to remove two bus shelters near The Gathering Place on Military Road in St.
A sign was taped to the shelters sometime last week indicating they would be removed by Feb. 15. The sign offered no reason for the removal. It gave a phone number to Metrobus customer service “for further information.”
“There are ongoing safety and service issues associated with this shelter that must be addressed,” the statement said. “The demand for emergency shelter far outweighs what the province is providing, and I think that’s the bottom line,” Ellsworth said. In a Facebook post on Saturday, Burton wrote, “Without adequate supportive housing units and resources that can go towards helping individuals with complex needs, we will simply push those who use shelters for, well, shelter, to another public space. Such as another bus shelter. Unless we know that someone who is displaced will be appropriately housed, the least we can do is not make the problem worse by taking away a space where someone has been taking shelter from the cold.
“If you put yourself in the shoes of a guest of The Gathering Place, many of our guests are challenged day to day to make sure that they have food to eat — a nutritious meal — and they have a warm, safe place to visit,” Davis said. “A public entity like Metrobus should be rising to the challenge of helping to assist those who are in need … instead of just taking the bus shelter out, and causing more difficulties. They should be rising to those challenges, and helping those people out,” he said.
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