It's a cold Autumn/Winter morning, you are waiting on the bus, you are tired and it's dark and it's wet. You would think a short sit down at the bus stop would offer a place of solace, somewhere you can feel comfortable, sheltered and protected.
However this is most certainly not what you get. The painful feeling of such cold steel coming into contact with your body almost feels like it burns your skin to your clothes. Surely this is a bad idea? I would have thought having seating in the bus stop would imply that they would like you to sit? After all sitting can prevent anxiety it can also calm people down and I am sure most people are aware of how uncomfortable it can be when ten people are all crammed into the one stop but no one is sitting.
So two good things would happen if simple design issues were resolved.
Issue 1. Comfort. In slightly heating the seating during colder months this would encourage people to sit and would also prevent the horrible sharp shooting pain. I understand that this would have to be regulated as we would not want some complaints of burning and over heating of the derriere! The heating mechanism could be similar to that of a heated towel rail and could work with environmentally friendly solar panels or wind powered.
Issue 2. Social. Through heating the seats this would encourage more people to sit and in turn communicate with each other. In turn this could strengthen community spirit and solve social problems.
I understand that all this is perhaps far fetched but I feel that the designers of these bus stops just think about "sexy" design they do not think of how their design can have a negative or positive effect on peoples days.
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