What should be a simple, basic amenity of bus service – a bench to sit on and some shade while waiting – is still a rarity in most areas of the region.
Woe to the person waiting for a bus in torrential rain or a heat wave. At the vast majority of stops across the region, bus riders will find no shelter from the storm or the blazing sun.
But as climate change fuels more deadly heat waves, bus shelters will no longer be considered an amenity. They will be a necessity to keep riders safe. It’s time for Metro and cities across the region to cooperate on a plan to fund, build and maintain bus shelters at most stops.Despite voters in Los Angeles pouring money into transit with sales tax increases, bus shelters are still in woefully short supply.
Until recently, Metro didn’t keep track of whether stops had benches or shelters. Metro operates the buses and chooses the stops, but cities, which control the sidewalks, are responsible for providing shelters and benches. There’s often little coordination between the agencies. That’s slowly changing. Metro surveyed bus stops across its 1,000-square-mile service area with the goal of trying to get more state and federal funding for shelters. Metro provided the data to UCLA’s Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies and MoveLA, a transit advocacy group, which examined and
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