(02-01-2023, 05:13 PM)SF22 Wrote: I was just saying this morning that I'm so irritated with the lack of shelters at the bus stops closest to my house. One of them has a clear 'space' issue, but the other one totally could fit a shelter and a bench. The stops in either direction (on both sides of the road) both have shelters and benches, but not mine!
(If I owned the house that fronted onto a bus stop, I would be installing a bench along the sidewalk as a matter of civic duty.)
Yup! The Reddit thread was actually about exactly this. Someone uploaded a video from @climateandtransit that has him looking at really nice bus shop shelter designs and going "uh...nah...no" and then it gets to a North American one that is just a sign in the ground beside a ditch where he goes "oh yeah that's the one haha": https://www.tiktok.com/@climateandtransi...0592821546
I also hate the lack of bus stop amenities here. The benches...well usually I don't sit on those even if they are there because people pee and shit on them for fun or vomit on them after heavy drinking but benches are still nice to have if you don't mind taking the risk of using them. And having some form of shelter from the elements would be wonderful. Not to mention, it would be nice if a concrete pad could be installed at many that are just indeed a patch of grass beside the curb. The lack of garbage cans is annoying as well. I'll wait at a shelter sometimes and it will look like a garbage truck just unloaded its entire load behind it. It's disgusting. It doesn't make people want to take the bus when that is what they have to deal with while waiting for one.