New Dunedin bus shelters let you see and be seen

Just like the movie, they know what's 'out there' and it scares them so...ok so no shops, glass shelters paid for by advertisers, no change to Andy Bay Rd, no malls, etc.. etc... I wonder if this same aatitude correlates to the stunted population growth??

At least one advertising company has  approached council with an offer to not only manufacture and instal glass bus shelters, but to also clean and maintain them (as they do within other main centres) all at no cost to the DCC.  I'd be interested to know as to whether the proposal ever actually made it to council or if it got rejected by the administrators. 

In response to a tweet query I made to the DCC this morning, the council says only some shelters will have seats - all will have leaning rails.
I say, not good enough. Does this have fit with the Accessible Journey component of the New Zealand Disability Strategy, or Dunedin City's disability strategy?

And you have nowhere to sit down either?

I wonder if anyone has actually tried standing in the rain and particularly the wind inside one of these 'shelters' to find out how much protection from the weather they actually provide?
The design looks too narrow to be effective to me - maybe because of concerns about obstructing footpaths?

My objection regarding the bus shelters: -

The only ratepayers notified of the positioning of the bus shelters are the property immediately situated where the bus shelter is to go and no consultation from a home owner who lives next door where the danger of backing out, firstly onto the footpath 'blind' but also onto a very very busy road where visibiltiy is already compromised.  I went to a 'street' meeting with my neighbours, only because they had informed me of what was happening, before that I knew nothing.  At that time I voiced my very real concerns that my visibility getting in and out of my driveway would be severely compromised with a bus shelter being erected.  

Secondly, the bus stop where they DCC is proposing to erect a bus shelter is between zones oon Forbury Road and therefore is very rarely used mainly because passengers can either go to the stop before or the stop after as that is the beginning of a new zone.  At a cost of $7,000 for the little use this bus shelter would gain as well as the very dangerous driving safety of ones visibility backing out of my property where there are many small children on scooters going to school, dog walkers and mothers with prams etc.  

I'm surprised why they can't just get a partnership with an advertising agency that will advertise and pay for the shelters, simple really. I wonder how many people at the ORC have been outside of Otago to realise what the rest of the country do or even the rest of the world.

Where are the seats?  

Council staff seem to have overlooked an essential function required by some citizens while awaiting the arrival of their bus.

While I'm pleased that we are moving towards glass-walled shelters, given Dunedin's climate, it's unfortunate that we can't have the shelters enclosed on all sides as seen in Auckland (where you really don't need the additional warmth).