ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[ijmorlan]

The warm, enclosed LRT stop at Grand River Hospital is going to become the new de facto smoking shelter for GRH patients. I hope they have plans in place to combat that, because the old iXpress stop smelled like an ashtray.

A fire suppression system might work. It (theoretically) works on airplanes.

Or they could just build a proper smoking area for GRH patients. This whole “smokers don’t get anywhere to smoke” thing is out of hand. I’m not in favour of smoking being prevalent — it should be viewed as a disease, with a goal of elimination — but we’re now starting to provide places for users of many illegal drugs to do so safely so it’s unreasonable for a place like a hospital not to have a place where addicted patients can smoke.