Security changes were brought in Wednesday night to put a stop to Edmonton Transit vehicles being used as rolling homeless shelters.
It’s in response to a “coughing” incident from Sunday, April 5 that led to charges against a 38-year-old Edmonton man under the Public Health Act.
Since then, transit staff have documented other incidents. Councillor Tony Caterina told Global News his inbox got over a dozen unique complaints. “Between the last two days, I’ve received over 12 emails from actual drivers that are sort of at their wits’ end,” Caterina said. “Being able to stay on the bus all day long and do basically whatever they feel like doing, and a lot of things would be considered illegal under any other circumstance.” Steve Bradshaw, the