New bus shelters irk residents
Posted in dubai public scene and tagged with airconditioned bus shelters, bus, bus stops, dubai on 12/10/2007 12:43 am by GraceThey’ve gotta be kidding us!
The Dubai Roads and Transport Authority has installed air-conditioned bus shelters all over the city in preparation of next year’s summer. One of the purposes of these environment controlled shelters is to lure people to take the public transport to reduce the bottleneck traffic everyday in the emirate.
The capacity of the very badly designed shelter is 14, 8 seated and 6 standing. On the average, 20-30 people wait at bus stops and given the culture this country has, everyone was surprised that the shelters has no separate section for ladies.
~airconditioned bus shelter near my place~
How can they not see, from the design stage that functionality heavily sacrificed for the design? What were they thinking, shaping the bus shelters like the iconic Burj Al Arab?
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December 11th, 2007 at 7:36 am
They are an odd shape aren’t they.
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December 12th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Air conditioning sounds so luxe to me. But then I live in the San Francisco where it is rarely needed. I think the women of Dubai need to send some letters into the design team. Maybe it should be women inside and men outside.
December 17th, 2007 at 10:45 am
[...] Sandierpastures wrote an impassioned blog about the poorly designed new air conditioned bus shelters in Dubai. Seems they didn’t take women’s needs into account very well. It offers insight into another culture for me. Worth a read. [...]
March 12th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
[...] design of these shelters is modeled on the shape of the crescent, not after the famous Burj Al Arab as I have thought. Presently there are hundreds of these installed all over the [...]