Bus Shelters Community Meetings -- tonight and this week

I think we have an opportunity to try to work on the City to put historically-sympathetic bus shelter structures in neighborhoods dominated by historically designated and/or eligible building stock.

This bus shelter from Berlin is very similar to the "waiting stations" still extant on the east side of the U.S. Capitol. Helios Bus Shelter, Arno Bonanni, Wall City Design. Berlin, Germany. Photo: Courtesy of Project for Public Spaces.

Shouldn't we get bus shelters that add to the charm of the street rather than detract from it?

From DDOT:

The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) announces the first in a series of meetings to obtain community input on the implementation of the ClearChannel Adshel (Adshel) bus shelter agreement recently signed by Mayor Anthony A. Williams.

The first set of meetings is listed below, with additional sessions to be scheduled in the other wards in January:

December 5, 2005 - Ward 6
Hine Junior HS Auditorium
335 8th Street, SE
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

December 8, 2005 - Ward 8
7th District Police Station Meeting Room
2455 Alabama Avenue, SE
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

December 12, 2005 - Ward 7
Capitol View Library
5001 Central Avenue, S.E.
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

The new bus shelter program calls for replacing all existing shelters, expanding the number of shelters and a number of innovative features, such as bus maps and real-time bus arrival information. Representatives from DDOT and Adshel will be present to describe the program and respond to questions.

1. Click here to read the bus shelter franchise agreement.
2. Click here for the Kent State Urban Design Center report on Transit Waiting Environments.
3. Click here to enter the 21st Century Streetscape online exhibit.