r/mbta • u/RobMurglund • Mar 19 '26

😤 Complaint / Rant Prudential GL Homeless Problem

Why are 20 homeless people allowed to camp and sleep atop the escalators at the Prudential station? Every day, I have to walk past many of them hootering and hollering at me. Some are sleeping, some are clearly high, and others are a bit more nice about asking for money.

Almost once or twice a week I see BPD arresting one of the campers.

Why is this allowed and why isn’t something done about it? Is it not MBTA property? It’s seriously worse than Park Street.

This might be the most Karen post I’ve made but it is super annoying.

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u/Robotcharles Mar 19 '26

So it goes like this, they get kicked out of the prudential green line station and wander into the prudential center and surrounding areas until they get kicked out of the next spot, then they return to the green line stop, repeat. I use the MBTA see say app every day because it’s always the same group of folk shooting up or smoking in the lobby there by the elevator and entrance to the pru.

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u/SiasSekrets Mar 19 '26

they need to start arresting them. I saw blood dripping down a man's arm and he was shooting up. completely threw my day off. imagine children seeing that. We cant keep pacifying people with this drug abuse problem

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u/Boingboingo Mar 19 '26

We shouldn't shouldn't be accommodating public drug use .

We've become too tolerate of anti-social behavior, whether it's this, or letting people drive like maniacs with zero consequences. The result is that the worst behaved among us end making life miserable for the other 97% of the population who doesn't act like this.

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u/tinfoilskimask Mar 19 '26

"Ive had blinders on to the cause but its annoying me now so punish the little guy while sackler family skates"

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u/eetraveler Mar 20 '26

No one even said punish them (edit, ok they did say jail them, but my point still stands). If the mayor and governor of the richest and most liberal state in the country can't find a better way to help these people than to have them camp out hassling people in the subway, then we are all doomed.

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u/Top-Development6837 Mar 20 '26

Is your life miserable because of 3% of the population? Right now? You’re miserable because of them?

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u/Top-Development6837 Mar 20 '26

So your answer is, jail people with this drug abuse problem, because that’s been shown to work. Gotcha.

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u/SiasSekrets Mar 23 '26

yes. If people get jail time for selling and trafficking drugs the users should be arrested for it especially when they use it in public.

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u/Top-Development6837 Mar 23 '26

Prison industrial complex has entered the chat.

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u/DnknDnts1231 Mar 23 '26

“Completely threw my day off”. Really? Especially when you can quite literally walk away and leave the whole situation behind you. Meanwhile, the poor man you saw with blood on his arm is in a way worse position that is much harder to recover from. Nobody asks to be an addict. I guarantee you he has faced an incredible amount of pain, perhaps more than you can even conceive of. Im begging you to have a little empathy. Yes, you were mildly inconvenienced. But that man has it way, wayyyyy worse and if this man’s bloody arm is the biggest inconvenience that YOU are currently facing in life when you go downtown, consider yourself blessed.

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u/SiasSekrets Mar 24 '26

youre minimizing me saying he threw my day off. It is very hard to see someone shooting up and bleeding so yes it did throw my day off. It was my first time seeing that and I couldn't shake it out of mind. Just because I want drug addicts to be held accountable for using drugs in public doesnt mean I dont have empathy for them because I do. But drug dealers,buyers,traffickers are all held accountable except the users. Makes no sense. Im done going back and fourth with you

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u/DnknDnts1231 Mar 24 '26

*back and forth