NYC worth fifteen times more than DC as a market...

Andrea Mohin/The New York Times. Bus-stop shelters, some like the model above, are to be built by Cemusa, a Spanish company, if its bid is approved by the city on Monday.

Since NYC is yielding that much more money than DC as part of a master bus shelter contract, with the income stream generated by advertising (and in NYC also by magazine-newspaper stand rentals). NYC gets 20 toilets out the deal, but DC gets bike-sharing services out of its contract. See this article from the NYT, "$1.4 Billion Deal for Bus-Stop Toilets Nears Approval," and these blog entries about the DC process:

-- DC Bus Shelter Planning
-- Mayor Williams Signs New Bus Shelter Contract; $100 Million ...
-- The first priority for Bus shelters ought to be marketing transit

From the NYT article comes these numbers: "3,500 bus-stop shelters, 330 newsstands and 20 public toilets."

Note that DC bus shelters will be one of four types, allowing for a better targeting of design by neighborhood, with a particular version that I think works well for DC's neighborhood historic districts. I have also suggested that these shelters in the neighborhoods can be places for neighborhood public art and cultural history.

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