Uber Bus

This is an odd story; there’s a competition to design a new style of bus shelter for Sydney.

Someone has finally recognised that half a glass house on the side of a busy road is a shit place to be.

In winter you get wet. In summer you get fried. At all times you get asphyxiated.

My best idea is to remove the need for visual contact between the bus and a prospective passenger by having an app that allows prospective passengers to simply state where they are going and then hit a ‘hail’ button.

The relevant bus driver will then know that he or she has a passenger to pick up at that bus stop which is identified by the prospective passenger’s GPS location.

The passenger would be alerted to the bus’s near arrival by the usual alarms. In fact the passenger could even see their bus en route on a map.

It’s just freaking Uber guys! Do it already…

Under this scenario bus shelters don’t have to be made of glass or have walls missing etc. Problem solved. They could be air conditioned. You’d know who’s in there by the app. In fact you could use the app as a door lock to keep out strangers. Etc