Every day, intercity bus passengers arrive and depart from curbside stops across Manhattan. In many areas, you only know it’s a bus stop because there’s a sign marking where the bus will arrive.
On a pleasant spring afternoon, that may not seem like much of a problem. Spend 30 minutes there during a summer heat wave, a January cold snap, or a downpour and the experience looks very different. Many stops have no shelter, no seating, and not even basic amenities that passengers deserve while waiting for transportation. Not even a trash can.
For years, that has simply been accepted as part of curbside intercity bus travel in New York, but it doesn’t have to be…