“The first thursday those bus stops go up, they will probably be trashed as the youth club empties out on the night time. I had to request not to work late shifts on a thursday at work because its really not pleasant being next to a load of yelling kids kicking the bus stands, swearing, pushing each other and generally causing mayhem. They'll not last five minutes. I just wish we'd had some forewarning as this weather is really not nice to be standing around in waiting. The time taken has been ridiculously long - it must have been several weeks ago they started, then the builders left them for a while. Thankfully, they've started constructing the things again. It's not as if the bus stops further along the route have any shelter either. Some forethought would have been much appreciated.”

“Lets look at it this way, how meny normal bus shelters could be put up for the large amount of money the council are paying for just the 4. So a few falk can stand at a new bus shelter watching a LCD, getting wet to the bone, wateing for a bus thats running late, the rest of us stand at one of he old ones just geting wet to the bone wateing for a bus thats running late.”

“I agree with BM and LB. I lived in Cardiff for a while and there were displays at stops there telling you when the next bus was due, and it made me much more likely to use buses.
Here, I find I arrive at a stop believing there's a bus due, only for it not to turn up. As there's no way of telling whether it's not coming or just delayed, I end up walking to my destination or getting a taxi - often for my bus to pass me en route.
I think people wouldn't mind waiting at bus stops so much if they knew how long they would have to wait. I've noticed that buses and bus stops here are often deserted, compared to other cities where they are well used, so these signs might go some way towards making public transport more user-friendly.
This initiative should be rolled out across the city and not just in Burslem.”

“I would say there is a big difference between moaners and thugs who smash things up. Whilst both are negative actions, moaners don't cause people to be standing outside in the elements. Incidentally not all bus stops have shelters. I think that the money would be better spent trying to improve First buses ot run on time and give the comuter a better deal!”

“As a daily user of these stops does infuriate me that despite all the technical and aesthetic claims for these bus shelters they will not actually shelter anyone. These have been selected by people who will never even think of taking a bus. I would just like to ask these people would they be happy for an elderly person to wait at one of these for thirty minutes. The existing shelters have not been badly vandalized unlike many with the one at the war memorial being an ideal of a shelter, large and effective at protecting waiting passengers. Waiting in the rain and cold costs business with time off work from ill health, discourages those who have options from using public transport and exposes our elderly to misery and conditions that they should not have to tolerate.

We need shelters that function as shelters.”

“Where on EARTH do our councillors dream up these hairbrained ideas. Don't they know that what they are doing is just more fodder for the yobs of this city to smash up. I, for one, would be happier if they spent our money on picking up the tons of litter which make our city look the filth hole that it is.”

“why on earth are we paying for these out of our money when the buses who overcharge already should be paying. even with inflated fuel prices my car is cheaper. i truely support the idea of safer public transport. this i cannot see making it that.

i would imagine BM and LB that you would complain if you were 73 years old and standing in the wet and cold waiting for a bus because our council cannot organise itself and prioritise its tasks correctly. why carry this work out in winter?

use our money to help people feel safer in our community to make us want to use them in the first place.”

“Just after the war I was in the potteries very often and there was no need for screens. With five companies working the "Main Line" the longest wait was about three minutes.
However this went to about seven minutes after 10 p.m.”

“****CLAPS**** BM.

I agree, there is no difference in the moaners and the ones that smash it up!

This will be so much better as me as a young woman will feel so much safer.

Yes we have not had a shelter for 2 weeks whihc was slightly annoying, I have 2 small children but we coped, the outcome will be so much better.

They have these in other cities I have visted and they work well.

Oh Stoke On Trent, don't like any change a lot of people here! Move with the times people!”

“Perhaps money should be spent on cleaning up the buses interiors first , they are an insult to the people ..”