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Originally Posted by pchipman
I seem to always forget just how creepy it can get up there at night. My fiancee and I went for a walk up there during Nocturne this year thinking there may be something interesting happening (didn't look at the schedule or map) - we were completely wrong. Whereas the rest of the city was bustling with crowds, the Citadel was dark, quiet, but packed with parked cars and leering eyes. I think it's time this was addressed, at least with some lighting features. I always love walking around the Citadel at night and checking out the city lit up, but I always seem to forget just how damn creepy it gets up there.
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There isn't a city in Canada, or probably on earth, that doesn't have two or three or twenty public parks that are well-know cruising areas, and where authorities more or less tolerate the activity - probably to keep it isolated to these areas.
It does seem a shame that such a huge central city park would be like this and therefore basically unavailable to the general public at night, but it's probably also safest for all involved this way. Central, visible, near a police station - all make it less likely that things will go terribly wrong during these encounters. Though, of course, they still do go wrong occasionally.
Public sex, like teen sex, or like porn, or like myriad other things that people are driven to do, can never be eliminated. I don't think we want our resources spent on people getting off in the middle of the night instead of on patrolling real crime.