Is losing a bus stop a good thing or a bad thing? That probably depends. But when that bus stop is basically just a sign on a pole behind a guardrail, something probably has to change eventually.
A Metro bus stop in Springfield Township on Daly Road has received a lot of attention of late after making it to the finals in transit site Streetsblog.org's "Sorriest Bus Stop in North America" contest. Right now, the stop is competing for votes with a terrifying stop in Vancouver for the honor of worst bus stop in U.S. and Canada.
But the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority has now told the site that stop will soon be no more.
SORTA is currently taking a look at all 4,000 of its stops, a spokesman says. Part of that evaluation will be eliminating the wayward stop on Daly Road. But no worries — there are other, more viable stops very close by.
You can read more about Greater Cincinnati's appearance in this most auspicious of contests — and the funding challenges facing SORTA due to low state and local funding — here.
