Long Beach residents and business owners are unhappy with the end of the line policy for Metro trains specifically the A Line, saying it increases the homeless population.
"These people who had no intention to get off at Long Beach, no reason to come here," said Joe Harding, a Long Beach property manager."But they're forced off with nowhere to go."
Council member Suzie Price helped draft a letter the council sent to Metro Tuesday night. In the letter they are asking to evaluate the end of the line policy to find alternatives to leaving people to fend for themselves in Long Beach. She suggests working with Metro outreach teams as one option. "We can't take on a larger portion of our regional share of this regional crisis," Price said."Connecting them with services at that moment, I think would be incredibly effective and mitigate the impact to the city of Long Beach."
Metro says the policy is not unique to Long Beach and happens at many end-of-the-line stops as a way to clear trains before returning them to division yards for maintenance and prepare them for the next day of service. But for some residents and business owners near the end of the line they say they're feeling the unfair brunt of the ongoing homeless crisis.City leaders and residents tell NBC4 they don't blame Metro for the influx of homeless people in Long Beach.
"The burden is falling on us. We're caring and understanding and we are supportive and understand the issues they're going through," Harding said."We're not trained to deal with that here, we're not."
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