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A Tattler rider shared this photo with me last week.
It's the aftermath of a car hitting a bus shelter at the WNW corner of the Armitage/Sedgwick/Lincoln intersection.
What's truly impressive is that none of the glass windows shattered. A piece lies on the ground unbroken. Amazing!
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The wife mentioned to me yesterday morning that a car had ran into the bus stop by our house. So when I left for work and was walking around the corner I couldnt help but take some pictures of this sight. The bus stop on the corner of Irving ... [Read More]
Wow, I wish all my stuff was made like that.
Posted by: David | May 04, 2006 at 06:38 AM
I think those are plastic. That is an old shelter, not one of the Decaux new ones. I think the reason the sides "fogged" was that it was not glass.
Posted by: David | May 04, 2006 at 08:18 AM
I wonder what the car looked like
Posted by: cmama | May 05, 2006 at 09:14 AM
i miss those old shelters.
the new ones fog, too, just not as much because they have openings at the top to release the warm air, it has nothing to do with the material.
Posted by: sunburntkamel | May 05, 2006 at 09:22 AM
Too bad the one at Irving Park & Clark did not fare so well - I wish I had my camera with me at the time. By the way, it was a new shelter, and the glass did shatter, but it was safety glass & held together, mostly.
Posted by: Rob | May 05, 2006 at 10:38 AM
Too bad they couldn't have taken out the Red Eye box instead.
Posted by: Adam Kotsko | May 05, 2006 at 08:18 PM