Did you know many bus stops in Melbourne are solar powered?
They have LED lights at roof level.
And a battery box beneath the seat.
Which is recharged by solar panels on the roof.
Quite a nifty design that removes the need for extending mains power to each bus stop.
I think they also need a sensor on the window to tell Adshell or our PTA that the windows have been smashed.
Nifty – all you’d need is a glass breakage detector and a 3G modem to phone home.
I wonder if the LED tram stop lighting below is the same. I will check for batteries. Each light bank seems to have its own control system and sometimes lights don’t come on at night and sometimes lights don’t go off during the day.
Sadly, they’re often anti-sleeping designs as shown in the photos too. Could have provided an arm rest at each end (or at only one end, if they’re exorbitantly expensive and difficult to make), but instead they put one right where it stops someone lying down.
Good catch there – seems to be par for the course at new railway stations as well.
They don’t like people lying down in hospitals either. An outpatient experiencing difficulty coping with the wait in public hospitals (at least, a particular one, from experience of a relative) either has to tough it out sitting up or has to be admitted as an emergency patient.
I purchased 3 retired bus stops but none came with any of the necessities…like key access to the battery box.
Anyone know the best way to access the locked away smarts and power (battery)
I’m guessing the equipment boxes use the same weird square keys that traffic signals use – probably easier to just cut them off with an angle grinder!