EDITOR – I would like to ask if there isn’t anything that could be done about the situation at the subway in Warner Beach, as it is really getting out of control.
Even though an ET camera has been placed there, it does not help, as the homeless people who gather there will sit out of the view of the camera, or on the railway line, away from the camera.
This situation is getting bad as every day there seems to be more and more homeless people gathering there. Especially on a Friday afternoon, they sit and drink, smoke their weed, break bottles and leave the broken glass there. Sometimes the rubbish bin has been overturned and everything is just left there.
Who is expected to clean all the mess up? They also use the subway as a toilet and it stinks when you walk by there.
These homeless people sometimes start fighting with each other and swearing at each other, making pedestrians too scared to walk under the subway in case they get harassed, robbed or threatened. Some time ago there were children who had come from the beach who tried to walk under the subway, more than likely to get home. They were harassed by these people and were scared to such an extent that they walked along the railway line (which is in itself dangerous).
This is supposed to be a tourism attraction but these homeless people sitting there and doing all this put’s people off from using the subway, which also means they don’t go down to the beach. You just don’t feel safe going under there unless you have your dogs with you. I think something really needs to be done about this matter and soon – just now it will be the holidays and how will holidaymakers feel about all this happening>
I think it would be a good idea if CCPO or ET security guards could patrol in the afternoons, early evening between 5pm and 7pm and maybe chase these people away.
I know and understand that there are not enough resources for ET and CCPO to have them all over the place at once and these homeless people will eventually come back and the problem will start all over again. If the bottle stores could and would stop letting these people buy from their stores, it would also remove the problem. Then again the owners or managers of the bottle stores would be threatened or harassed as these people cannot buy their alcohol, so I also see it from the bottle stores’ point, but something urgently needs to be done.
CONCERNED RESIDENT
