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Ideal Bus Stop Ideas? 🚏🚍 (slrpnk.net)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I started this discussion on mastodon, but want to here too. If you could create the perfect bus stop, what would it have? Here are some of my ideas:

⛑ Safety:

Shelters: no advertisements blocking views. Enclosed shelters must have 2+ exit points.
Solar lights

♿ Accessibility:

A space in shelters for wheelchairs.
Marked wide paved section for wheelchairs & those with mobility difficulties to board a ramp onto the bus.
Braille on bus stop signs & tactile pavement.

🚲Other:

Bike racks
Vending Machines
Public water fountain
Tiny library

Do you have more ideas?

Edit: realized the photo i added is ai, but i can't seem to get rid of it so 🤷‍♀️

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Smoke sensors and alarms, ~~bomb squad~~ metropolice on call (sorry people!)
Longer shelters, made of glass, but photosensitive (more sun = less transparent), 4000K LED lights at night (but not blinding!)
Grass rooftop
No ads
Interactive, dynamic timetable
No bay (waste of time, less comfort, because of damaged surface)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Frequent buses. I've never stood in one despite spending a lot of time waiting for my bus. shelters are cheap and bus drivers are expensive so I understand putting in a shelter when there is some money but not enough for another but but adding another bus is always the better option if there is any choice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's true, it might be a location dependent thing! Here, where it can reach -40c, they are very important(you can get frostbite in under 10min), but elsewhere they might not be important hardly at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Coldest I waited for a bus was about -25c when you dress for it it isn't too bad.

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