Nice. I've always thought that this one sucked pretty hard:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@47.695567,-122.305306,3a,75y,46.5h,68.57t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1sUbP_R7rFdv3ZjtcrAth-ow!2e0!5s20110701T000000?hl=en Unfortunately, the image was taken on a sunny day - you really need to experience that stop pre-dawn on a typical soggy January day to get the full experience. That shot is from 2011 - they have improved it since by pouring a little bit of concrete. But it still sucks hard today. On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Hans Noeldner <[email protected]> wrote: > What is the sorriest bus stop in America? > > > > I can sit at my computer and look the Streetsblog.org online survey about > this very topic (a posting which is very popular among transit advocates > right now). > > > http://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/02/06/its-time-to-vote-for-the-sorriest-bus-stop-in-america/ > > > > > I can review the images in the submissions and chuckle at how bad they > are. I can try to cast an “objective” vote. This is how many of us > operate much of the time right now in America. Sitting in the bleachers, > observing, passing judgment. > > > > But there is another way I can see the sorriest bus stop in America. I > can look out the bay window of my house, at Main Street in my own > community. The sorriest bus stop is one where no bus ever stops. It is > the place where people who don’t have the luxury of choosing among > “transportation choices” cannot choose to live. > > > > And if I look more closely I can see, reflected in the window, the image > of a man who promised over ten years ago that he would bring commuter bus > service to the village of Oregon, Wisconsin. > > > > I could ask whether I am the sorriest excuse for a transit advocate in > America, but in addition to being insincere it I would be a perverse kind > of hubris. The worst bus stop in America shouldn’t be about me. It > shouldn’t even be about ranking which is the worst. > > > > It should be about what I didn’t get done. Yet. > > > > It should be about what we didn’t get done. Yet. > > > > Hans Noeldner > > Viral Narratives Mfg. Co. > > Oregon, WI > > 608-444-6190 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > > -- Scott M. Rose West Point Grey, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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