That bus stop looks like a great place for a homeless encampment. It is the dream of Team Dave to create poverty and crime hot spots. This is a great new chapter for Boise.

They should have put drains in the floor to make it easy to hose down the urine, vomit, and other byproducts.

I wonder what the ADA says about no place to sit at a public bus terminal?

EDITOR NOTE–You can sit in the garage with the bus “clean exhaust” and noise. Wonder how the “no sitting” would go over at the airport. 🙂

I for one have grown very very tried of the door people various businesses have hired to intimidate customers. Fact is the employees are the largest source of loss. Yes really. So if you want me to come in and spend money at your store or bus stop or movie theater or bar or university or car dealership or hospital, it damn well better stop feeling like a trip through Miami Customs. I don’t give a shit if he’s a real cop (off duty). I want respect as your customer rather than the guilty until proven innocent concept these people exude. I have an alternative called Amazon. There will be more alternatives soon. Change or fail.

BTW, The woman might be on the floor due to a medical issue. It seems like the bus employees don’t want the customers in the same space with them? thus no benches inside. The Pope kisses the feet of criminals and peasants, you could at least be kind.

BTW, The buses are still speeding most times I see them. Especially on the way to the barn at the end of the day.

http://fortune.com/2015/01/26/us-retail-worker-theft/

Is this the Greyhound bus terminal or the new city bus building next to the “Grove”?

At any rate, the purpose of not having benches to sit on (and not allowing floor-sitting) is to keep the homeless out, not as someone suggested above, to “create poverty”. LOL And asserting the Team Dave has a “dream” to create poverty is even more LOLOLOLOL.

EDITOR NOTE–It is the underground transit place. Also, I think the previous commenter was being sarcastic. We all know the “no sitting on the floor” rule is aimed at a specific group. Every airport terminal in the world is full of people sitting on the floor, many with computers plugged into a wall socket. Those passengers are never forced to sit on the tarmac to wait for their ride.

It’s really interesting to watch society do its thing in such environments. This transit mall was supposed to be a new and wonderful addition to our urban experience. A utility of efficiency and comfort. Well, the reality is that not everyone fits into the vision of the builders’ social expectations. Team Dave had better come up with a solution for homeless folks. At the same time, they had better think more deeply about what their customers and constituents expect from a public utility like a transit mall. The comparison of an airport to this transit station is apt. They are the same. Seating should be provided for those that need to sit down. College kids sit on the floor all the time, while waiting for their rides. That’s illegal now?

Again, people do what they want in a free society. But this is not a free society when people are ushered around in the masters’ transit mall. Where do people collect their thoughts when they are moved around or forced to stand up everywhere. Next, there will be speakers from the ceiling giving constant orders…..”keep moving, keep moving”…….”no sitting, no sitting.”

I have always been pro-bus and train. But the implementation has left a lot to be desired. This mall doesn’t seem like a happy place. It’s better than the old curbside model for indoor comfort and bathrooms are available. But you don’t need the Stazi watching and ushering you around. And why is it a crime to video things anymore? I guess surveillance is only a one-way street.

Nicely played, Mike Murphy. That was hilarious to see that lady spin herself into circles trying to bully you into following her arbitrary commands. My wife and son had a similar experience riding bikes into Dry Creek Cemetary to visit a friend’s grave. A “security” person tried to run them off for being on bikes. Went round and round with plenty of yelling and empty threats. I get it that they don’t want the place clogged with passed out homeless people, but that was clearly not what they were dealing with.

Kudos to Mr. Murphy for standing up for all our rights he behaved respectfully, the only offense the VRT employees had was not liking the fact someone would not bend to their abuse of power. Mr. Murphy should sue VRT for them insisting he stop recording and essentially removing him from the property.

VRT should also be sued for their illegal sign of no sitting, I expect a no loitering sign to prevent the public facility from being a homeless camp, but requiring everyone must stand as opposed to sit is not only absurd, it is a violation of ones right in a tax-funded facility, and likely a violation of the American with Disabilities Act where some disabled individuals may not be able to stand for the period of time required to wait for a bus.

Absolutely disgusting to see a public agency treat the public in such a manner.

We used to have a high school principal who walked around with his hands in his pocket as the man? is doing. We called him “scratch”

Time for a Sit In at the Bus Pit???

WORST possible design ever if they actually wanted anyone to ride the bus. But that never was the intention in the first place. It was to sweep the “undesirables” out of the public eye and away from businesses and the Ugly new Gardner Co. buildings by putting them down in the Pit.

Some “security guard”…. a tiny woman takes over for him? Security guard my ***.

I didn’t think Murphy was rough around the edges at all….and he was spot on with everything he said. Learn your rights citizens…they are already being eroded.

Bikeboy,
Your point is well taken. It really could be either.

However, given the recent tone of shut down the press, deprive people of their rights, ignore the laws (proven by the courts), acting (tweeting) without thinking, threatening to do something and then not doing it, degrading people of a particular class, and management having a general cluster… who does that remind us of?
A liar or a childish liar?

Being a freak about someone videoing a public area is a lot like Sean Spicer seizing cell phones from White House staff employees…paranoia.
Local VRT management or the White House— a bunch of wackos!

Efficiently and prudently pouring (federal) money into urban transit really is the direction we as a society need to go.
The 2C/1A commuter as it applies to us here, only highlights that point. We have a problem Houston.

Investing in public infrastructure- was one of the messages the other night. That is something we can all support, despite bikeboy tagging it as a liberal program, that is exactly what was promised and might even happen.
We don’t know who is going to pay for it, or how these “new jobs” will work out for police flunkies, and paranoid bus workers, but we can hope:

“I will be asking the Congress to approve legislation that produces a $1 TRILLION investment in infrastructure of the United States financed through both, PUBLIC and private capital,”

Somebody needs to ask this public servant just who appointed her “GOD”. She needs to find another line of employment.

Aww. Look at all these SJWs b*tching about rules and enforcement of such. Cute. Maybe you should welcome garbage to your neighborhoods. Practice what you preach, hypocrites.

My teenage son was at the terminal this afternoon, attempting to utilize our public transportation, which he has done since he was 12. He found today that there is a sign taped to the wall indicating that you can’t sit on the floor. Further, when he attempted to use the restroom he found that it was locked and you had to obtain the code from customer service. He had to wait behind others in line at customer service. By the time he got the code, and used the restroom, his bus was pulling away. Rather than wait 30 minutes for the next bus…he walked home 3 miles. C’mon Boise….you can do better than this.

As is the modus operandi of Boise’s Shadow Government, the CCDC once again played Bait & Switch with the citizens of Boise.

Pitching Main Street Station as a modern inter-modal transit station capable of serving Boise and the Treasure Valley’s needs into the future, we instead got an excruciatingly overpriced subterranean White Elephant unable to accommodate the current fleet of buses — no less allow for expansion — and is “inter-modal” in only the broadest sense of the term.

The interior illustration shown on the CCDC’s website of a gleaming, inviting station with modern conveyances was used to garner public support for this boondoggle.

What Boise got instead is a glorified parking garage of questionable construction as open, airy, and inviting as Hitler’s Bunker.

Devoid of escalators, adorned with dollar store clocks, and with a contraption called a “Bike Trough” that is an accident waiting to happen, Main Street Station should be re-purposed and a truly modern, inter-modal transit mall worthy of Idaho’s Capital City be constructed elsewhere.

Abandon Main Street Station will identify more suitable sites, and propose a provocative method of paying for construction and repaying the Federal Government that includes diversion of the nearly $6 million a year in revenue generated for the City of Boise by the Boise Police Department at http://www.AbandonMainStreetStation.org