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Since we've still got the old bus shelters in our neighborhood, we were interested in the rider reactions to the new shelters article in the NY Times City section.
The new shelters started to be installed late last month, and there are 10 new steel shelters in each borough so far. By 2011, there will be 3300 new shelters. Some riders had some suggestions about placement of bus schedules, while others wondered if there will be eventually be benches (there will be for 3,255 shelters - the materials just haven't come in yet). But a rider Boerum Hill rider had some thoughts about the stainless-steel port frame and tempered glass structure: "I think it makes it a little bit mall culture-ish. But I like it.” Well, stainless steel and lots of glass is pretty rampant in most new construction, so maybe Manhattan is just becoming a mall.
If anyone has seen the new shelter, tell us what you think. And later this year, outdoor company Cemusa will start to replace newsstands and build the new public toilets.
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They look very similar to the ones we have in Toronto, complete with Viacom ads!
They look much nicer and more pleasant to wait in. Hopefully the one pictured above is the "light" version and there are more fully-sheltered boxes in case winter ever comes.
If there are, hopefully they will not have the traditional gap between the ground and the bottom of the glass to freeze out the homeless, because it freezes out bus riders too.
Here in Rego Park, we've got two of these and on both shelters I've seen multiple wing shaped imprints from birds striking them. Plus I didn't see any digital information about bus arrival or schedule yet.
They look like sterile cheesy crap like everything else being built in this city now. I loathe stainless steel and glass. Testament to the vacuity and slavery to the accountants of today's modern "designers" whose influences consist of the TV set. The closer you get to "modern design" the less you get out of it, just like a TV screen.
Bus shelters in this city should be designed along the lines of the bishop crook lamposts or other classic cast iron street furniture. Something with a little charm and dignity, not this crapola. The people who designed Battery Park City got it sort of right.
Nick, I think charm & dignity left town a while ago... Probably with Donald Trump's full, lush head of hair.
Nick is confusing style and quality. There is plenty of modern design in this city that is wonderful, functional, and humanistic. Conversely, "classic" looking designs often end up looking like cheap imitations of the past. I'll take good modern over cheesy post modern any day. Can't comment on the shelters since I havent stood in one yet, but I do think they look better than the old ones.
Can't wait for the first graffiti marks to show up (ugh)!!!
These will look all nice and clean for, like, a minute. You know that these idiots who love to graffiti stuff can't see anything clean for very long. Because you know, they have to put on thier "tag" on everything (which are letters put in such a way where it's impossible to make them out even if you actually gave a rat's behind).
Oh well, enjoy them while they last.
That's exactly one of the reasons why delicate chrome steel and glass street furniture in this town is the concept of idiots and probably people who don't even live here.
Whereas cast iron street furniture just gets a patina and better looking with age, is virtually indestructible and impervious to the activities of cretins, and merely requires a coat of paint every few years to keep on tickin'. Not only that but they would last a good 60 years, while as this crap will need replacement after 5, not to mention the cost of replacing the glass every 10 minutes.
But as usual, the contract is given to the lowest bidder instead of the smartest idea.
Look at the measly little friggin' bench in that thing, enough for 3 people, where it should stretch the width of the shelter.
Sorry for all the negativity, but I love New York and sometimes what I see built here revolts me beyond words.
i would imagine the reason for the design of the bench is to prevent people from sleeping on it.
the new bus stops hit my neighborhood and i think they're quite nice, though from the ones i've seen, there's only room for one route map/timetable, so at stops with multiple bus lines, this is a problem.