Public can vote on new bus shelter design

Posted on — Thomas Calder

PRESS RELEASE:

New Belgium Brewing, the Asheville Design Center and the City of Asheville are teaming up this summer to create a new kind of bus shelter for Asheville. For the next two weeks, the public can vote on the materials used to build this new shelter, located at the intersection of Craven Street and Haywood Road in West Asheville.

In August, ADC will install a bus shelter at the inbound bus stop located at the intersection of Haywood Road and Craven Street in West Asheville. The shelter will serve transit patrons traveling into Asheville from West Asheville, as well as anyone taking public transportation to the Craven Street area.

While preparing their current campus for construction, New Belgium Brewing reserved building materials salvaged from the stockyard that once stood on the site of the brewery and through a grant, engaged the ADC to develop a bus shelter with an approved design as an option for use across the city. Drawing from these materials, ADC designers have developed three district designs for the future bus shelter. Voting closes on August 10, 2016. An online vote is now available at: ashevilledesigncenter.org/projects/wavl-bus-shelter-voting/

The project also contributes to the place making efforts for this West Asheville and new greenway gateway by drawing inspiration from the cultural history of the site and surrounding neighborhoods. A panel with historical information will be included as part of the final design.

ADC’s volunteer designers have used a community-driven design process to engage transit users in a series of outreach events, listening sessions, and design workshops that have informed a selection of designs for the shelter. You are now able to vote online to select your favorite shelter among three distinct designs.

Pending greenway completion, the hope is to install the bus shelter by August 27, 2016 in time for New Belgium’s 25th Birthday Bash at their Asheville Brewery. http://www.newbelgium.com/birthday-bash

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Thomas Calder received his MFA in Fiction from the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program. His writing has appeared in Gulf Coast, the Miracle Monocle, Juked and elsewhere. His debut novel, The Wind Under the Door, is now available.
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One thought on “Public can vote on new bus shelter design”

  1. ApePeeD

    A little bit of caution. I’ve seen some very nice bus shelters go up, only to be vandalized or damaged and then never repaired by the city.
    You want something that will be easily repairable… otherwise it’s not going to be ever repaired and will only be a homeless lean-to.

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