I do not like bus shelters without two side walls

Theo Coulombe for The New York Times. One of the first of New York’s 3,300 new bus shelters. Its seating is still to come.

I suppose they are designed this way to limit loitering and unpreferred use by homeless people, but given rain, wind, and occasionally snow, I think that 2, rather than 3 sided bus shelters dis-serve transit customers.

See "Sleek They Are. But Will They Make the Cut?" from the New York Times about the city's new bus shelters.

Boston's Silver Line stations may be sleek, and like the Soviet bus shelters, indicate where the bus stop is, but they provide no protection from the elements.

Photo by Steve Pinkus.

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