Edinburgh Council has signed a £5 million, 10 year advertising contract with JCDecaux covering many elements of the Edinburgh street scape.  As part of the deal around 400 bus shelters are being replaced – but only the ones with advertising panels.  The roll out of the new bus shelters is due to be complete by the end of October 2015.

There have been many issues with the bus shelters, such as not providing much shelter, seats too high, long bus stops replaced with shorter ones  and many others.

Living Streets Edinburgh interest in the project is the shelters are taking up much more pavement space than the previous shelters, and some do no meet the councils own design standards.

• New bus stops that do not meet the councils current design standards
• New bus stops that have already been replaced following intervention
• Existing bus stops that do not meet the councils new design standards but are not currently being replaced

In early October 2015 Living streets Edinburgh called on the council to delay the roll out until the issues with existing stops could be resolved.

CAMPAIGNING GROUP CALLS FOR DELAY IN ‘FLAWED’ NEW BUS SHELTER PROGRAMME

 

 

 

 

Below are Living Streets Edinburgh interpretation of the Edinburgh Councils design standards regarding bus stops.

 

Which stops are being replaced

Edinburgh Council article on bus shelter replacement