Editor:
At best, Highway 101 minature bus shelters provide fair weather cover from directly overhead sun.
Barely wide enough for two average people to stand beneath, the petite roof provides virtually no protection from rain, snow or sun. At Roberts Creek Provincial Park, 'Gibsons winds' invariably blow rain directly toward the waiting bus-passengers during non-summer months. This creates the need to level one's umbrella toward the rain to protect the upper and lower body from becoming wet if not soaked, along with any luggage, or small children.
Any angle of rainfall makes the mini bus shelter obsolete. Unless the prospective bus passenger is wearing excellent foot wear, their feet will be soaked as they stand in a stream of water running off, and alongside the highway. The half-width seats are uncomfortable, rain drenched, and unsuitable for standing on while it is raining, or sitting on afterwards.
I raised a complaint when the shelter was half built, but received no reply. Perhaps Roberts Creek is not considered worthy of having all their shelters full-sized to provide some real protection from the elements.
Colin MacLean
Roberts Creek
