The feasibility of privately-funded bus stop shelters for the city of Boston
Published: 1980
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Description: ...gives historical background of federal actions aimed at reducing automotive vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in order to reduce air pollution; this report investigates whether a bus shelter program could be privately sponsored and whether it would attract people out of thier cars and into transit thus reducing VMT and contributing toward compliance with air quality standards; reviews current role that bus shelters play in public transit (in Boston and other cities), the attitude of transit patrons toward shelters and the benefits and problems entailed by such a program; includes an appendix giving sidewalk widths at selected bus stops in the city; this item was in the BRA collection...