To give context from another capitalist hellhole that is propagandized in the West to be even a worse capitalist hell than the West to keep the population in line through fear:
Korea (lib) has bus stops with air conditioning, sun cover, wind cover, heated seating, usb charging port, wifi, and digitized bus arrival time with real time update through a screen.
Yeah, that’s way above and beyond the average even in like, Berlin.
The most you get here is a small booth with a bench and glass covering the side + a plastic roof. Also the electronic screen with bus arrival times, but that’s a city thing only.
What is the point of a bus shade cover if it’s transparent and smaller than a person? Also I searched “british bus stops” and they look like normal enclosed bus stops with bench inside them?
The difference is that the UK doesn’t have year-round temperatures of 29 degrees celcius. You can get away with not sheltering people in the UK because the weather (usually) won’t kill them.
The bus is really infrequent and LA gets a lot of the-sun-is-trying-to-kill-you days. The lack of benches is an attack on the homeless. This thing yielding practically no shade is an attack on bus riders. It’s not so much that they made things worse – I’ve stood at stops there with no shade whatsoever. That these things were just recently installed makes installing something actually good a non-starter for years, if not decades, and that’s the problem. It’s sort of a flip side to the good-is-not-the-enemy-of-the-perfect cliche. I don’t oppose this because it’s good and I want perfect – I oppose it because it’s crap and I want at least good, but we’re locked into crap for now. See also: VTA light rail.
You can’t really do anything to improve local politics in LA because it’s utterly dominated by real estate interest groups, and also because the cops in LA need to get put in a denazification camp. Like the entire institution of policing is bad, but LA cops are genuinely insane.
It’s supposed to provide shade to folks at the bus stop. How much shade is this actually providing? How many people can get in the marginal shade this even provides? It’s basically non functional.
If you see the pole with the white Metro 16 sign on the right, that’s what tells you it’s a bus stop and what bus will stop there. This was supposed to be something more than that, now it’s basically a very expensive and redundant piece of crap.
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LA Metro hates the homeless more than the average Angeleno and that is fucking saying something.
To give context from another capitalist hellhole that is propagandized in the West to be even a worse capitalist hell than the West to keep the population in line through fear:
Korea (lib) has bus stops with air conditioning, sun cover, wind cover, heated seating, usb charging port, wifi, and digitized bus arrival time with real time update through a screen.
Yeah, that’s way above and beyond the average even in like, Berlin.
The most you get here is a small booth with a bench and glass covering the side + a plastic roof. Also the electronic screen with bus arrival times, but that’s a city thing only.
What is the point of a bus shade cover if it’s transparent and smaller than a person? Also I searched “british bus stops” and they look like normal enclosed bus stops with bench inside them?
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We have those in LA too, but this thing they put up was meant to act as a bus shade and also cost like $100 million.
The difference is that the UK doesn’t have year-round temperatures of 29 degrees celcius. You can get away with not sheltering people in the UK because the weather (usually) won’t kill them.
The bus is really infrequent and LA gets a lot of the-sun-is-trying-to-kill-you days. The lack of benches is an attack on the homeless. This thing yielding practically no shade is an attack on bus riders. It’s not so much that they made things worse – I’ve stood at stops there with no shade whatsoever. That these things were just recently installed makes installing something actually good a non-starter for years, if not decades, and that’s the problem. It’s sort of a flip side to the good-is-not-the-enemy-of-the-perfect cliche. I don’t oppose this because it’s good and I want perfect – I oppose it because it’s crap and I want at least good, but we’re locked into crap for now. See also: VTA light rail.
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You can’t really do anything to improve local politics in LA because it’s utterly dominated by real estate interest groups, and also because the cops in LA need to get put in a denazification camp. Like the entire institution of policing is bad, but LA cops are genuinely insane.
It’s supposed to provide shade to folks at the bus stop. How much shade is this actually providing? How many people can get in the marginal shade this even provides? It’s basically non functional.
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If you see the pole with the white Metro 16 sign on the right, that’s what tells you it’s a bus stop and what bus will stop there. This was supposed to be something more than that, now it’s basically a very expensive and redundant piece of crap.