One Young (née Mayfair Hotel) | 5 fl | Complete

[jeffster]

That would be nice. Currently, their bank machines are inaccessible on weekends, presumably to keep the homeless out. It is frustrating when I want to get cash for the market on Saturday.

I wonder why they don’t install a bank machine on the outside wall (probably under a cover such as might be found at a doorway)? Alternately, I recall at least some bank machine lobbies used to require the card to open the door. I’m not sure how much checking it did before opening, or if pretty much any magstripe card would work (or even any object shaped like a credit card).

Or maybe they’ve just decided that nobody goes to Kitchener off hours so it doesn’t matter anyway

No. The issue was with the homeless sleeping in there. A security guard was attacked the one night, a couple year ago, and I believe this was at the BMO. There was also a couple incidents at the CIBC branch as well as Scotia Bank. At some point, they all agreed just to lock them permanently at night. I had used the banks while with friends, though I would never by myself. Probably a good idea to have them locked, but there still needs to be access to cash somehow.