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 🤷♀️
Furniture differs between public and private or at least supervised areas. It should be really stable and easily cleanable.
Someone will come along and think to itself: that glass shatters so beautifully, I like that. Or: it is surrounded by walls and a ceiling, it must be a toilet.
Those latter issues are generally solved with systemic changes that aren’t intrinsic to public transit.
Teenagers exist everywhere though, so this sort of urban furniture is unrealistic.
Teenagers exist here and yet somehow nobody shatters bus stop glass walls, uses bus stops as toilets, etc.
Maybe the fix is at a cultural level.
I have never seen anyone suggest how to change a culture in a way that isn’t worse than all the bad effects of the culture they want to change.
And yet cultures have, in general, over time, changed for the better.
It’s a mystery to me how this could possibly happen since cultures always change for the worse!
In the US we’ve utterly lost the will to do fixes at the cultural level.
Even the dems are saying to buy a glock, or to point the police at any cultural problem.
Have you lost the will or have you fallen into despair because of your political system?
very much so.