Bus Stop Design

[Raffles]

Bit of a boring question this, but it would be great to have an answer!

My wee sister is designing a bus stop for her design project at school, and asked me to find out how much a structure can hang out over the road...

My guess would be that you're not allowed to have any overhang over the road, but I'm not sure. I've trawled the British Standards, but have not found anything of use. I don't want to let her down...

Anyone in the PH massive know the answer, or where I can find out?

[puggit]

Why not ring up your local council - mine seem to employ countless people to design ever more disruptive road systems so that busses full of poor people can beat the rest of us in to town.

[vixpy1]

Well, trees can overhang the road, as do streetlamps So i guess that as long as the overhang is taller than a double decker bus or Arctic, then its allowed. However, one might question the usefullness of a sign that high up?

[nonegreen]

Presumably it would be best if the bus stop moved out over the road hydraulically when the bus arrived so as to cut it in half. Then the road could part hydraulically allowing the bus to drop into the crushing mechanism and eventually be spat out as a cube into a skip waiting up the road. Voila. That would certainly stop busses

[kennyGti]

nonegreen said:

Presumably it would be best if the bus stop moved out over the road hydraulically when the bus arrived so as to cut it in half. Then the road could part hydraulically allowing the bus to drop into the crushing mechanism and eventually be spat out as a cube into a skip waiting up the road. Voila. That would certainly stop busses

A good, common sense answer to a real world problem Nice one nonegreen. Now we need a solution to those pesky trains

[mr clive]

If the object is over a certain height then it can hang as far into the road as you like. I cant remember the exact height but its unlikely a busstop would be high enough.

If the object is below that height then it has to be set back from the face of the kerb. The clearence is in the region of 400mm but I cant remember the exact figure off the top of my head.

[tvrgit]

Not covered in British Standards, you need the Highways Act. So do I, I don't have one either! It's available on the web but I don't have time to look for it just now.

I think minimum height before "reduced clearance" signs are required, is about 5.4 metres - anuthing lower than that should not project over the road.

I think that the specified horizontal clearance to "roadside obstructions" is about 600mm, but obviously, there are a lot of locations where traffic signals and guardrails etc are a lot closer than that.

[Jinx]

los Angeles said:

And none so far are immune to the attention of vandals.

So a pre-vandalised bus stop is the way forward?

[Raffles]

Cheers for the info; some very useful stuff there.

She shouldn't need anything too detailed for her project. Just ther basic facts!