Commuters have abandoned large swaths of a Los Angeles Metro train system plagued by crime and the scourge of drugs.
Metro board member and Supervisor Hilda Solis asked the agency to consider another approach, and come up with a plan that will make the station and plaza more inviting to the community at large. She’s asked the agency to look at “care-centered strategies” including a vending program, health and crisis support services, cultural programming, public art, bathrooms and shade structures.
“Most people come here to buy drugs and then they do them on the train,” said Jerry Settlemire, who emerged from the platform with his wife, Michelle.The two said they had recently been released from the county jail and came to cop “fetty,” as fentanyl is known on the streets.“I’m ready to get high,” she said.Before Morales boarded the train to smoke his drugs, he was outside the station plaza in a brisk breeze as people whizzed by. Women held their children’s hands. Others talked on phones.
Morales’ face lit up when he found a marijuana bud on the elevator floor, put it in his pocket for later, and jumped on the train.
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