6/27/17 Bus Stop
High 70s and sunny, thunderstorms coming in later they say.
Nearly every morning that I go into the office for work I wait on a bus stop. The bus stop is just off the intersection of the street that I live on and a main artery that runs the length of the island. It's about 8-12 steps from the corner depending on how long your stride is. There's a shelter that's mostly glass and it has an ad on the side furthest from the corner in the direction of the traffic flow on that side of the artery. The top is frosted glass that's tilted on and angle to let rain roll off the back and there's a space between the walls and the roof that precipitation can blow through if the angle of the wind is just right but it rarely is. On the side nearest corner of my street there's a blue strip that has the intersection spelled out
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except the letters are sideways as though the designer wanted everyone to read it with their head tilted 90 degrees to their right.
There's a bench in the bus shelter with two dividers that make three seats. The bench is black with steel supports and doesn't have a back.
There's around five feet of space behind the shelter between its back wall and the chain link fence that borders a parking lot for a convenience store, a pizza place and a cell phone store. People stand in this space if they want to smoke without being yelled at by other potential bus passengers (you aren't one until you get on, right?) and the experienced commuters stand there when it rains because the gutter used to be lower which caused water to pool and vehicles would splash you as they drove by.
I don't know if or when this bus stop will change but I figured I'd document it before it goes or I do.
Nearly every morning that I go into the office for work I wait on a bus stop. The bus stop is just off the intersection of the street that I live on and a main artery that runs the length of the island. It's about 8-12 steps from the corner depending on how long your stride is. There's a shelter that's mostly glass and it has an ad on the side furthest from the corner in the direction of the traffic flow on that side of the artery. The top is frosted glass that's tilted on and angle to let rain roll off the back and there's a space between the walls and the roof that precipitation can blow through if the angle of the wind is just right but it rarely is. On the side nearest corner of my street there's a blue strip that has the intersection spelled out
l
i
k
e
t
h
i
s
except the letters are sideways as though the designer wanted everyone to read it with their head tilted 90 degrees to their right.
There's a bench in the bus shelter with two dividers that make three seats. The bench is black with steel supports and doesn't have a back.
There's around five feet of space behind the shelter between its back wall and the chain link fence that borders a parking lot for a convenience store, a pizza place and a cell phone store. People stand in this space if they want to smoke without being yelled at by other potential bus passengers (you aren't one until you get on, right?) and the experienced commuters stand there when it rains because the gutter used to be lower which caused water to pool and vehicles would splash you as they drove by.
I don't know if or when this bus stop will change but I figured I'd document it before it goes or I do.
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