Loitering at some Metro bus transit centers will be prohibited after City Council voted 8-0 Wednesday to approve an ordinance.

The ordinance expands rules already in place for Streetcar stops, and for future Bus Rapid Transit stops . Specifically, it allows the Department of Transportation and Engineering to declare a “Transit Center Zone” where loitering is prohibited.

People will only be able to stay in a Transit Center Zone for the time it takes to purchase bus fare, wait for the bus, and board or de-board. City Manager Sheryl Long says enforcement plans are still udner discussion, but the goal is to use community responders to ask loiterers to move away, with police intervention and citations as a last resort.

"We understand that this is a very sensitive topic, and we have every goa

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