Gimme shelter (From Penarth Times)

Gimme shelter

WHEN IS a shelter not a shelter? Local bus users have been asking for a bus shelter at the top of the Cowslip (on Redlands Road) for years. We thought we were having a great Easter present when one suddenly appeared there - but what a disappointment!

We wanted shelter from the winds off the bay and from the drips of the trees on the one side and the tidal waves thrown onto us by passing traffic on the other.

The shelter supplied was inverted and guess which way the open side faced (no prizes!)? Also a gap of a foot or so was left at the bottom of the closed side (to make sure we got wet feet?). The so-called seat is at waist height on any average person and the whole contraption shakes in the slip-stream of passing traffic.

Who is responsible? Don't they think? Does anyone care? As with the replaced shelter in the centre of Penarth, apparently a whole list of buses are supposed to call. The timetables provided show where the actual bus services should stop but these stops are not mentioned anywhere on or in the shelters concerned.

Very confusing for all.

I noticed that on the TV news last week some very nice shelters had been provided somewhere in Wales where no buses run.

Miss R Holliday Heath Avenue Penarth