Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Sorriest Bus Stop in America 2016

The people have spoken, and the winner of Streetsblog’s 2016 Sorriest Bus Stop in America tournament is this beauty on Colesville Road in Silver Spring, Maryland. In terms of pure danger, it’s hard to top this tiny refuge next to a state highway with no crossing to protect pedestrians from speeding traffic. The last match in the 16-entry tourney was a bit of […]

This is it, folks — the championship round of Streetsblog’s Sorriest Bus Stop tournament. Each of the 16 bus stops that competed this year — and the agencies who oversee them — deserved a thorough shaming. No transit rider should ever have to wait in the rain for a bus with no posted schedule, or walk in a ditch along […]

The competition to be named America’s Sorriest Bus Stop started out with 16 ghastly contenders, and your votes have whittled the field down to four disasters for transit riders. Yesterday voting began in the first semi-final match — Kansas City is currently ahead of Broomfield for a spot in the championship round, and with the polls open until midnight it could go […]

It’s Final Four time in Streetsblog’s Sorriest Bus Stop tournament. After two rounds, only the least appealing, most dehumanizing bus stops are still standing. In addition to today’s contestants, a bus stop in Boston has advanced to the semi-finals. Voting remains open until midnight to determine the last slot in the Final Four — Silver Spring or Asheville. On to today’s match… […]

Today marks the last match of the second round in Streetsblog’s hyper-competitive Sorriest Bus Stop in America tournament. So far this week, bus stops in Broomfield, Colorado, and Kansas City have staked claims to shame in the Final Four. The victor of today’s match will take on the winner of Boston vs. Henrietta (if you haven’t voted in that one yet, the poll is still open until midnight). Silver Spring This afterthought […]

It’s tough to winnow the staggering number of bad bus stops in America down to the worst of the worst, but we’re making progress. Today’s Elite Eight match in the Sorriest Bus Stop in America bracket pairs a stop by the Wegman’s in the Rochester suburb of Henrietta against a pitiful traffic island bus stop in Boston. Only one has what it […]