bus stop from hell
The picture featured here is a bus stop I noticed today. It’s on westbound Hillsborough Avenue near Benjamin Road. I have a feeling this might be the worst bus stop in Hillsborough County. For starters, well, look at it. There’s no shelter or shade whatsoever and the bench itself is sitting at a crazy, cockeyed angle 
in a weed-choked culvert.
This ergonomic nightmare would pose a triple threat of severe sunburn, excruciating backache and snake bites if not for the fact that it’s position right at the end of Tampa International’s busiest runway (the one that planes approach from the north). Which guarantees that anybody sitting there for more than five minutes will be sucked into a jet engine like a star-crossed Canadian goose. If you’re wondering why you never hear about this happening is probably because no human being has ever actually used this bus stop.
The only things remotely close by are the Pin Chasers Bowling Alley about 200 yards to the east and the Beaumont Business Center about half a mile to the west, both of which have bus stops in front of them. I’m sure the company who bought advertising on the bench is thrilled by the exposure this gets them. Of course, I guess they don’t have to worry about anybody ever sitting on their ad and obscuring it.
(Crossposted at Ridiculously inconsistent trickle of consciousness)
Tags: service, tampa, transportation
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June 8th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
you shd forward this post to the transit authority. it speaks volumes about the state of public transit around tampa…a sad useless mess.
June 9th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
You could forward it to the local transit authority, but that would be ridiculously silly. The local transit authority is not against more buses, better bus stops, or more modes of transportation. It may seem strange to comprehend at first, but it is not the mission of the local transit authority to decrease transit service or make it less attractive in any way.
A better idea is to forward it to local politicians and others who consistently block more funding, no wait, GOOD funding, for mass transit in Tampa.
Dave
June 9th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
dave is right, but im guessing the transit authority maintains these bus stops and its bureuacrats have to pretend to be customer friendly. so they should at least try to make this bus stop and others less hostile for riders….