Roosevelt Sims Wrote:
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> This newspaper article, and many others, offer
> credibility to what I'm suggesting. How would you
> like to drop your mother, wife or daughter off at
> a bus station and, on her trip, she's surrounded
> by homeless and mentally ill people who are
> hallucinating and probably haven't bathed for
> days?

Portland Union Station is surrounded by homeless camps; admittedly the Greyhound station was across the street and equally suffered, but don't dare claim that Amtrak's station is somehow free of it. The City of Portland pays for security guards to keep the homeless out of the publicly owned "public" building. Greyhound recently shut down their station and threw their hands up in the air, replacing it with a small ticket counter a few blocks away.

I've had security guards walk up to me at the Denver Union Station back in the day telling us to watch our stuff, due to the riff-raff that occupied the station.

I've had armed police officers board my Amtrak train on numerous occasions between Portland and Seattle to escort persons off the train and arrest them on the platform. (Never seen that happen on Greyhound, but a few times on a TriMet bus and on MAX.)

Put it this way: Amtrak has a police department with federally armed and trained law enforcement officers. Greyhound doesn't.