Meanwhile, high-use stops on High St and Forbury Rd, and about 270 others in the city and Mosgiel, are still waiting for shelters.
The shelter in Borlases Rd, Sawyers Bay, was installed as part of a programme to have shelters at all of Dunedin's 500 inbound bus stops - a programme whose funding is set for review.
Council transport manager Jane Turnball said the council gave the Dunedin City Council a list of shelters to install each year.
The city council worked through the list, choosing to install shelters that could be built with the least cost and difficulty.
Where neighbours objected, plans were shelved in favour of those least likely to need to go through the resource consent process.
They included a stop in Forbury Rd that has shelters either side, at least four stops along High St and a stop in Mosgiel's Gordon Rd.
"The policy is to have shelters at all the inbound stops, so the city council worked its way through the list and installed the easiest ones first," she said.
"The others will come - they are still on the list - but it has been a question of making progress where progress can be made. There was no point having inordinate costs for a few shelters."
The district plan had been changed to make bus shelters a permitted activity, so the hard-to-get shelters would be tackled again, Dr Turnball said.
There were no objections in Borlases Rd, and it met council policy to have bus stops every 500m and for all inbound stops to have a shelter.
She did not know how many people from the six properties nearby used the shelter, but said the Port Chalmers-Sawyers Bay-Ravensbourne route was very popular.
It cost about $230,000 to install 19 shelters last year.
The New Zealand Land Transport Agency paid 60%, with the rest paid from rates.
About 20 shelters were installed each year, but councillors would debate the commitment and timeframe in the long-term council community plan process, Dr Turnball said.
City council transport operations programme engineer Michael Harrison said the Borlases Rd shelter cost $10,736, about the same as most of the shelters installed last year.
In the past year, the council consulted property owners near 35 stops, and plans for 16 stops were slowed by objections.
