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 🤷♀️
That would be covered in illegible graffiti, fast food trash, and feces soooo quickly where I live.
So you need a person there keeping it tidy instead of a vending machine.
That would have to be a contracted third party with truck mounted power washers. Similar to porta-shitter maintenance.
I think a lot of it stems from lack of individual community investment. Inability to own property due to awful wages leads to a lack of pride or ownership in a community. Areas that get torn apart and trashed are deprioritized by city services, leading to further trashing which destabilizes the local tax base by driving out business or discouraging new business.
I can’t sleep right now and I think I’m just ruminating on urban decay.
No problem, I hope you had a good nights sleep!
I thought more of the “madame pipi” which was a job in france where, usually an old lady, sat in front of the public toilets and kept everything tidy.
Not very cost effective in our hyper capitalistic society ofc.