Most of the so called bus shelters are nothing more that vertical spaces to post advertising. They should be called wind breaks or something along that line but even that depends on in which direction Mother Nature is breathing......
Standing room only makes for tiring wait at bus shelter
February 28, 2007
Jack Lakey
Staff Reporter
After a long shift at work, it's nice to take a load off one's feet – if there's anywhere to sit down.
On the northeast and northwest corners of Commissioners St. and Carlaw Ave., there are transit shelters for people who ride the TTC buses that wind their way through the port lands. Most of those people are travelling to or from work.
One of them is Joe McIninch, who works at the Toronto Hydro facility near Commissioners and Carlaw and catches the bus on the northeast corner.
McIninch called to say he works nights and is disabled. So when his shift is done, he's plum tuckered and ready to go home.
There are times when he may wait up to 25 minutes for the bus after work – a tradeoff for using public transit. But with no bench in the shelter, he says it can be a tiring ordeal.
"I've had two heart attacks, and it's a hardship to stand after working eight hours," he said, adding a bus driver told him that benches in shelters are usually replaced every couple of years, but the one in this shelter disappeared four years ago and has been missing ever since.
Ironically, one of the city's nice new shelters is across the street and has a bench, but if McIninch were to wait in it, then try to hustle back to the other corner when he spotted his bus, he might not get there in time.
STATUS: Angie Antoniou, who's in charge of transit shelters in that area, said she didn't know why the shelter has no bench, but she would send someone out to see if one can be installed. We'll let you know.
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