Sacramento RT Considers Rules to Limit 'Noxious Odors,' Other Objectionable Rider Traits

[marmar]

Oct. 25--Sacramento Regional Transit officials on Monday will consider a proposal to ban people from riding trains and buses who are a nuisance to other passengers, including people who "emanate a noxious odor" and who play music other passengers can hear.

The proposed rules are part of an effort by the transit agency to clean up service and improve its image among potential riders. Downtown business leaders and several new members of the Sacramento RT board say the agency needs to make improvements to attract "choice" riders when the downtown sports and entertainment arena opens in October 2016.

The proposed administrative prohibitions, listed in a staff report, are:

--Boarding trains or buses unless clothed above and below the waist and wearing footwear that has a sole.

--Emanating a noxious odor from body, clothing or possessions that discomforts other passengers, unless the odor relates to a disability or medical condition.

--Sleeping on a train that has reached the end of a line.

--Playing sound equipment that's audible to other passengers.

Pam Haney, advocacy coordinator for Wellspring Women's Center in Oak Park, which purchases transit tickets for some of its clients, said the odor proposal looks discriminatory.

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"It seems as though the primary goal of this change is enabling them to have an administrative route to be additionally discriminatory toward homeless people," Haney said. ..............(more)

http://www.masstransitmag.com/news/12130539/sacramento-rt-considers-rules-to-limit-noxious-odors-other-objectionable-rider-traits

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[KamaAina]

2. Sac RT is already pretty obnoxious to its passengers

http://www.sacrt.com/abide2ride.stm

You Must Abide
to Ride

Riders who repeatedly violate transit laws can be banned from using the system.

Anyone arrested for a crime or cited on three separate occasions within a period of 60 consecutive days for infractions committed in or on an RT vehicle, bus stop or light rail station will now face a ban of 30 days. Offenders can be banned for up to a year for more serious offenses.

Interfering with an operator of a transit vehicle, willfully disturbing others on or in a system facility or vehicle, and defacing district property could all result in exclusion.

Click Here for a detailed PDF of the administrative rules and for information regarding review and appeal procedures.

edit: emphasis mine