Author: Noor Al-Samarrai / Source: Atlas Obscura
If you live on the edge of Vancouver, in Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, and want to head downtown on public transportation, you might head to TransLink bus stop 61452, on a desolate corner of the westbound Lougheed Highway.
Until recently you had two options upon arrival: either stand on the accident-prone highway shoulder, or wait behind a concrete barrier and clamber over it when your bus arrives. Finally, things have gotten a little bit better.Local resident Jason Lee submitted a detailed rundown of stop 61452’s faults to Streetsblog, a nonprofit transportation news site, for its second-annual Sorriest Bus Stop competition. “This bus stop is a disaster waiting to happen,” he wrote. “In my three decades of riding transit, I have never seen a bus stop designed…
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