STM extends metro loitering ban
The STM has extended its metro loitering ban for another year.
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CE 16:03 on 2026-04-28 Permalink
I wish they would ban smoking on the platforms and pissing in the entrances.
Kate 14:05 on 2026-04-29 Permalink
Shoe dropped: On metro platforms they used to have one big city map on each side, and beside the map, the metro bylaws in fairly small print. I don’t know whether any stations still have these maps, but I remember reading some of it while waiting, quite a long list of things you’re not allowed to do, and I’m almost certain there has always been a rule against loitering. That can’t be new.
Anyway, authority and law enforcement love rules against loitering because it’s widely interpretable and lets you remove people that you find undesirable in any way.
CE, those things are almost certainly banned. The problem is the ban is not enforced.