This is a Streetcar stop (also referred to as light rail) in Toronto. Notice some of the cost-savings measures:
1. Bus shelter is IDENTICAL to that of a TriMet bus shelter.
2. No schedule information or even much signage - just that little cylinder item.
3. No art.
4. No crosswalk/pedestrian safety improvements.
5. The "platform" is extremely minimal - just enough space as is needed for people to stand.
What's not pictured is that they also used rebuilt 1940s/1950s era PCC cars, not new-build cars. And that concept works - San Francisco has an entire streetcar line that runs nothing but "heritage streetcars" and is among their most popular routes; they can even get away by charging a surcharge to ride it!
Odds are that "Cylinder Item" is a schedule and route map. Vancouvers Translink uses those things quite a bit on their bus flag poles at Bus Loops and Exchanges (or as we call them Transit Centers)
ReplyDeleteAlso SF (modern) Streetcars will let you off in a place where you cross in between parked cars, and the stop is a yellow band painted on a telephone pole marked "Car Stop N". Very simple...and yet efficient.
Problem is new things need to be ADA-compliant now, so if you're gonna build something, you gotta go the whole distance and make it accessible. And those streetcar stops here aren't that fancy either--just a raised concrete slab with a small shelter.
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