As winter draws near again, I am looking out my window at our local bus stop and remembering what a mess it was all last winter.
It is in front of a condo complex housing mostly seniors and an elementary school. There is no shelter, just a a cracked cement block with grass and weeds growing with wild abandon all around it and a bench.
When we had a big dump of snow no one ever came to shovel it out. The rest of the time it was dangerously icy.
I watched as elderly people and students en route to UNBC or shoppers going downtown as they waited on the street in knee deep snow, because they couldn't get near the bench. It too, was covered in three feet of snow.
The advertisement on the back of the bench was not visible either. Not a safe and comfortable place to be. Who is responsible for these bus stops, the city or B.C. Transit?
Certainly more people would use transit, especially in winter if the conditions of these stops were more welcoming and safe.
I was hoping whoever is responsible would do something before winter sets in again. There is still time.
Evelyn Rebman
Prince George.
