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Hadn’t expected a circular map to work so well for a city that is stretched along a river valley like Bilbao.
It was interesting how few of the 10 best bus station images had any buses, or potential passengers for that matter.
Bus stations
And how unwelcoming they looked like at ground level, too, once you were close up.
Shelter from the elements? What’s that?
I too had an issue with the bus stations… . Best designed is absolutely not the same thing as most architecturally interesting. Very much the opposite, often
Interesting how so few of the photographs of the 10 best bus stations actually show any buses using them (Preston excluded).
And the Preston photos date from red Ribble and blue Corpy days, not as such a comment on the design, but what is apparent is how grotty concrete brutal can get in the decades since when neglected. I always think of the building as a pillbox produced by a greenhouse designer, or vice versa. It’s certainly gone to seed in every way.