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A Tale Of Some Bus Shelters
Aug. 16th, 2009 07:34 pmI’m fairly certain I mentioned some time ago that a new bus shelter had been put up in Royston, at Burns Road/Roysia Surgery turning circle. (There wasn’t even a flag here two years ago, but that’s another story!) This one was a shelter relocated from the Hitchin Station redevelopment. While we were on holiday, got a further email from Herts CC to say that this shelter is now the first in the UK to be solar powered.
Anyway, around the time that this arrived in Royston, I put a request onto the end of a publicity request for a bus shelter at Royston, Old North Road opp Rock Road – where I usually go for my 26, 331 etc. when going for a bus at the end of the road, and also used by a substantial elderly group too. A stop and timetable case had been affixed to the lamp post for some time, but I said that this stop could do with a shelter. Next I know, last Saturday, I spotted a brand new shelter at this stop! Caroline later confirmed that they’d been putting it up the previous week. What were the chances? Now that we’re back from holiday, I nabbed a shot of this yesterday.
On another score, another bus shelter has been causing a bit of a storm over on the Dundee Area Bus Forum. Cast your minds back to the start of Dundee SmartBus, and into 2007 when agreements were made to have advertising panels added to the SmartBus specification shelters. This was intended to cover costs, and to ensure the continuity of the facilities. The storm is over a specific advert for Magner’s Cider, which doesn’t do much to promote bus travel. Before anyone points out this ad might be targeted at users of the bendi London 73, this stop was in Dundee’s Nethergate, serviced by Stagecoach Strathtay’s ‘tayway’ 73/73A, a route from Ninewells Hospital to Arbroath Cliffburn, with low floor double deck buses, conductors, and now part of the Dundee & Angus Bus Punctuality Improvement Partnership. Have a look… oh, and thanks to Matthew Tosh for this picture.
Anyway, around the time that this arrived in Royston, I put a request onto the end of a publicity request for a bus shelter at Royston, Old North Road opp Rock Road – where I usually go for my 26, 331 etc. when going for a bus at the end of the road, and also used by a substantial elderly group too. A stop and timetable case had been affixed to the lamp post for some time, but I said that this stop could do with a shelter. Next I know, last Saturday, I spotted a brand new shelter at this stop! Caroline later confirmed that they’d been putting it up the previous week. What were the chances? Now that we’re back from holiday, I nabbed a shot of this yesterday.
On another score, another bus shelter has been causing a bit of a storm over on the Dundee Area Bus Forum. Cast your minds back to the start of Dundee SmartBus, and into 2007 when agreements were made to have advertising panels added to the SmartBus specification shelters. This was intended to cover costs, and to ensure the continuity of the facilities. The storm is over a specific advert for Magner’s Cider, which doesn’t do much to promote bus travel. Before anyone points out this ad might be targeted at users of the bendi London 73, this stop was in Dundee’s Nethergate, serviced by Stagecoach Strathtay’s ‘tayway’ 73/73A, a route from Ninewells Hospital to Arbroath Cliffburn, with low floor double deck buses, conductors, and now part of the Dundee & Angus Bus Punctuality Improvement Partnership. Have a look… oh, and thanks to Matthew Tosh for this picture.
