The bus shelter on Donald & St Mary Ave was one of the many new planned heated bus shelters scheduled to be added around the city as part of the Transit Master Plan line re-org. The wiring went in last year as part of the Donald reconstruction. At the time I was thrilled at the prospect of a heated shelter there. Now, I hope the city doesn't even install walls until they put a stop to Main Street Project
shuttling people around and
delivering them to shelters for the day.
Transit should NOT be shouldering the cost and work of cleaning the shelters daily or policing them out of their budget/staff. Nor should we have to avoid every bus shack - let alone tear them down - because MSP is exploiting a city dept (Transit) for free shelters without city permission.