Streetsblog's "Sorriest Bus Stop in America" contest is back by popular demand.
Last year, readers nominated dozens of forlorn bus stops to call attention to the daily indignities and dangers that bus riders have to put up with. This sad, windswept patch of grass between two highway-like roads in a St. Louis inner suburb took the prize.
We've been hearing from readers and transit advocates who want another shot to name and shame the public agencies who've let public bus stops go to seed. So the Sorriest Bus Stop competition is back. (If you have a great bus stop you want to recognize, don't worry, we'll cover that in a different competition later this year.)
We'll be doing the contest as a Parking Madness-style, 16-entry single elimination bracket. Below is an early submission from downtown Austin and reader Chris McConnell, who says, "This has to be the saddest #busstop in Austin. It has no shade, no seating, and no stop ID for checking times. AND it's at the main transfer point downtown. FAIL."
You get the idea.
Send us the sorriest bus stops in your city, either in a comment or with an email to angie [at] streetsblog [dot] org. Submissions should include:
- At least one photo of the bus stop.
- A brief description of why it's so terrible and which public officials/agencies deserve to be shamed.
- An exact intersection, address, or other location marker that can be pinned in Google Maps.
The more convincing your entry, the better your chance of landing in the field of 16 that readers will vote on. Submissions due on June 30.
