A bus stop should do two things:
1. Locate the waiting point.
2.Provide a safe comfortable place to wait for the bus.
While most bus stops accomplish these two criteria, they put the bus rider in an unnatural position by locating the bus stop on the sidewalk in the path of pedestrian traffic.
What if the bus rider had his/her own space rather than having to inhabit the side walk, a place otherwise reserved for the pedestrian? Would this change the perception of the bus rider? Would this give the bus rider a different sense of their social condition?
The BUSTOP URBANScape is a space that replaces what used to be the bus turn-out. After all by having a bus turn-out there is no real commitment to public transportation. It is a compromise between single occupied vehicles and the bus.
The BUSTOP URBANScape is a contemporary abstraction of natural space. It draws from positive elements found in the landscape and reorganizes them in to the built environment using low cost raw building materials.
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