Comments on: Less than 9% of GSO Bus Stops have Shelters

By: Piedmont Publius » Blog Archive » One big group therapy session

Piedmont Publius » Blog Archive » One big group therapy session — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:50:46 +0000

[...] if Hammer hadn’t pointed it out — speak about the need for bus stop shelters, which evidently is an election [...]

By: D3 Candidate Comments on Bus Stop Shelter Idea | Vote Shell.com

D3 Candidate Comments on Bus Stop Shelter Idea | Vote Shell.com — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:47:08 +0000

[...] week I wrote a post highlighting that an extremely low number (less than 7%) of GTA bus stops have shelters. In that [...]

By: Ryan Shell

Ryan Shell — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:16:42 +0000

I’m not sure if I’m responding to George… or a committee, but I only have iPhone Web access at the moment. I’ll respond in more detail later.

Ryan

By: The Committee to Elect George Hartzman, District 3

The Committee to Elect George Hartzman, District 3 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:52:15 +0000

If public transportation customers had somewhere to sit and wait, more residents may utilize the system. The problem is funding. The City of Greensboro and Guilford County have increased total outstanding debt by more than 900%, from $135,696,206 in 2000, to more than $1,300,000,000 in 2009. So what do we cut from where to fund what appears to be a very good idea?

By: Black Woman Voter

Black Woman Voter — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:25:35 +0000

Ryan,
This is a topic that has been address before the council by a councilmember before and the group that goes to council on a fairly regular basis about GDOT issues.
Hopefully by YOU brininging up the topic it will be taken seriously.
I actually passed some people seating on the ground today waiting for a bus on Battleground Ave. This is unacceptable and if it takes YOU for the 4 member cabal and groat to do something about it, so be it.

By: annette

annette — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:49:11 +0000

I agree completely. I live in Morrisville where there is bus line to Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. The main line is along Highway 54 where there are numerous apartment complexes, a wonderful place to run a bus line. But there are very few shelters. To ride a bus, you need to be able to stay dry and warm or cool while waiting on it. Yes, to boost ridership one much have a bit of shade and a shelter from the rain. Good luck.

By: Ryan Shell

Ryan Shell — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:42:19 +0000

Sue,

Glad we agree. I think people tend to take care of things they appreciate and I think that would be the case with the shelters.

Ryan

By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:36:43 +0000

Ryan, we agree on this – if you’ve ever driven the length of Friendly Road (or is it Ave.?) at commuting times, you see bus riders waiting in all sorts of weather. The underlying meme is probably that no one ever valued bus riders and their convenience, comfort or well-being was at the bottom of every list. It’s hard to imagine that cleaning graffiti in the GSO area is a huge task. Perhaps they should put up one or two and see if it happens.

Real cities – GREEN cities – “get” that public transportation and its users have value. Draw whatever implications you want.

By: Ryan Shell

Ryan Shell — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:35:49 +0000

Spag,

Good concern, but that should not be a deterrent. Let me give an example of how making assumptions can impeded progress.

Maybe you have heard about when I was trying to get trash cans put out on portion of Lee St and was told that “people won’t use the cans.” Fortunately, I was able to get them put out and two days later they had to be emptied because they were overflowing.

Had the assumption deterred my desire to put out the cans we would have never made forward progress and been a step closer to cleaning up this particular portion of Lee St.

Ryan

By: Spag

Spag — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:18:29 +0000

Your proposal makes sense- but I question whether one reason for the lack of shelters is maintenance. Particularly when you consider that they too often become targets of graffiti artists.