"“Way worse,” echoed Kwabena Owusu, who took transit down to the core. “There’s a lot of uncleanliness on the subway here, there’s a lot of weird vibes.”
“Even walking downtown, nothing’s clean.”
The broken construction signs, vandalized storefronts, and toppled trash strewn through the nearby park are but small signs of neglect that many insist represent a bigger-picture problem: a downtown in decline.
And while poorly-coordinated road repairs and rerouted, reduced transit have made the core more complicated and costly to navigate, it’s the affordability crisis that has pushed other downtown-dwellers out."