Next to the mud patch was a little sign that says to help protect the landscaping and not to walk on it.
What were we supposed to do? All file out through the front door? This is a brand new bus stop on the Transit Mall! Shouldn't the size of a bus and the placement of the doors have been a consideration towards the design of the bus stop? Would a MAX stop be built with this where the door would be located?
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We have a handful of fails like this. The other is they put in the slab for the back door when the route has 40' coaches, and now had 60' Its not uncommon around here to have to get off in a patch of grass or mud out the back door. The front door is usually always accessible tho.
However, enough complaints about a stop will get it fixed, theres a stop I know of that was the case. It was redone by the city, they put in the pad for the front door, left the back door one a planter like substance, 3 weeks later a pad appeared where the back door usually lands.
What I like is placing a bus stop sign so close to the curb your mirror hits it.
That's incompetance in its finest hour.
I guess Portland didn't repeat the major fail of Seattle with the right-side mirrors on the DE60LFs being positioned so that they could take out all sorts of people, and had to put on really bright, flashing lights as the bus runs through the tunnel.
What is amazing is that there are literally thousands of bus stops in Portland that are unimproved, or have a sidewalk - and a planter strip, with no pad for the bus riders. You'd think - in Portland, of all places - that would never happen (or be very rare).
This, on the other hand, was specifically built by a transit agency for this. And they still screwed up! It isn't as though this was built like this and it was decided later on to put a bus stop here.
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