Yesterday two shelters with seating were erected at Moray Pl, around the corner from the Great King St bus hub, which is the main stop in the city for regional bus travel.
A Dunedin City Council spokeswoman said it installed the shelters, which would be ready for use today.
''The shelters were relocated from other areas and the installation cost is yet to be determined.''
Previously, the stop had no seating or shelter and passengers were seen daily sitting on and blocking the footpath, vulnerable to adverse weather.
Dunedin resident Anne Marie Parsons and regular bus user pressured the Otago Regional Council and city council to install shelter and seating there.
She could not be contacted yesterday.
When asked about the issue in May, former regional council support services manager Gerard Collings said there were no plans to introduce shelter at the stop.
However, in July, Dunedin public transport team leader Julian Phillips said it was working alongside the city council to provide shelter there.
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It is election time!!!! great that these are in place but please tell me these are only temporary well at least one of them, these were rushed and I expect. not built for this location. Who builds these do they have plans to build from? They are not even the same size in height. If the ORC has signed off on the install then the person needs to look for another job, there is no way that that height difference should be accepted and the people of Dunedin should not accept them not being uniform in height. Sure it might be picky but would anybody accept a new car with different sized wheels? Or if a builder installed two windows next to each other at different heights? - No and it is nothing against the two gentleman pictured who installed them, it goes back to specs and quality control at the managers level.
The shelters are different heights because they are on a slope, the feet are adjustable as is very clear in the photo. A more extreme example is the shelter near Moana Pool on Stuart Street. T
understand all of the above^. if the feet are adjustable then the height should be the same uniformity
"Previously, the stop had no seating or shelter and passengers were seen daily sitting on and blocking the footpath, vulnerable to adverse weather".
These are still vulnerable to adverse weather, the only plus is that they have seating.