11-24-2017, 10:28 AM
(11-24-2017, 09:11 AM)MidTowner Wrote: In the articles I've read on the issue, not one quote has even alluded to weighing the riders' experience against the risk to drivers. Maybe a careful analysis of that would have resulted in deciding that the shields were necessary, but it doesn't seem to have been included in the discussion at all.
Nobody at all considers the cost to riders. Every time I've traveled and gotten on a transit bus with a shield like this I have felt uneasy about it. It's something that I might get used too, but it gives the impression of danger and unfriendliness and is antithetical to increasing transit use.
Of course, that must be weighed against the safety of drivers.