Hundreds of LA bus shelters go unbuilt, millions in promised revenue evaporate under city contract
May 2, 2016
A woman uses an umbrella to stay out of the sun at a bus stop with no shelter on San Fernando Road in Pacoima.
Meghan McCarty / KPCC
A KPCC investigation has found more than half of the bus shelters planned under a city of Los Angeles contract have not been built, leaving riders at more than 800 locations without shelters. According to Brian Taylor, a professor of urban planning and director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, the misalignment of “the goals of the transit system, the goals of the city managing the sidewalks and the goals of the advertising company” is to blame for this inefficiency.
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