"Self-help" in transit

Kyle Baker gets the job done the hard way as he crawls under a bus shelter frame to pound in a rivet Friday morning. With help from his father, Mike, and his friend Clayton Wadsworth in the background, the trio finished building a bus shelter along Harvard Avenue Friday morning for Baker's Eagle Scout project. Andy Bronson / Spokane News-Review Staff photo.

I guess we should appreciate the Adshel contract that DC's DDOT signed to improve the state of bus shelters in DC's commercial districts and neighborhoods. See Clear Channel Bus Shelter Program for info on the program in DC.

This article from the Roseburg, Oregon News-Review, "Gimme shelter: Eagle Scout candidates install bus shelters for their service projects," discusses how a area transit system had the money to buy some bus shelters, but not the money to install the shelters.

I am looking forward to the results of the bus shelter improvement program in DC because it will also include a system of rentable bikes that will work just like carsharing services such as Flexcar and Zipcar.
Smart Bikes in Oslo. Photo from Oslo Surf.

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