WOW, this will change the way we wait for the bus. But do we all need all this mass information? It will just be a greater platform to bombard us with consumer advertising etc.

Plus how are they going to prevent vandalism?

That looks really, really nice but it's a shame that it will most likely be vandalised.

Irrelevant fact:

In punjabi, bus means stop

I'm trying to visualise it with graffiti all over it, smashed glass and chewing gum stuck to the touch screens.

Missing amongst the technical innovations listed, is information detailing when the next bus will ACTUALLY be arriving!

It will be made of glass?
I'm sure it will look nice when it receives a brick through it at nightclub closing time.
I'm sure these will cost 10x the price of current bus stops but will last half as long due the brick magnet problem...

Won't last ten minutes in Scotland

This would last 5 minutes in most major cities

OK but: it doesn't protect people from the elements (not MIT's fault, that's in the requirements so why isn't it a requirement?), the bus times have to be accurate as opposed to now in London where the arrival times have no relation to reality, and of course it will be vandalised in London within seconds.

Perhaps instead the Eyestop could be our solution to crime in London? Implement three strikes and you're out, jail the vandals using Eyestop as a legal honeytrap and watch while the vermin are wiped off our street.

So pretty and yet so useless. No doubt money will poured into nonsese like this rather than actually providing a decent service. All we need is a bench, a shelter made of something indestructable and a (very) regular bus service. We don't need LCD screens in windy shelter that will shatter on day 1. Even the ultra simple "time to arrival" signs in central london today already don't work.

Neel, actually 'bus' in Punjabi means énough'.

In reply to Liam: Yes it would! In Edinburgh we have bus tracker screens and solar-powered ticket machines around our bus stops here already. I can't remember ever having seen one vandalised - and I live in Leith!

Looks just like the Holodeck Arch from "Star Trek: The Next Generation"...

What fun the yobs would have defacing and destroying these. Sadly, NuBritain is trapped in the past by the feral gangs we've bred.

This sort of thing will only work in Arabia where they'll cut of your hand if caught throwing a brick or vandalism, hence zero crime.

yeah you wouldnt be able to put that bus stop up anywhere in england. would be smashed to pieces within a week.

Abroad there is not as much rampant vandalism as there is in the UK.

I am guessing these are going into the tourist areas. They look lovely and are definetly a great touch to spruce up a City.

Suprised at how dismally bitter some of the comments are here. Makes you sad really.

My hours of fun while reading the online information etc whilst urinating up against it.....

Remember the KISS rule: Keep It Simple, Stupid. The greater the complexity, the greater the chance of malfunction. I agree with other posters, that this is a no go.

One that senses it's being vandalised and fries the vandals with a 10,000 volt shock would be a useful innovation.

could we not just buy more buses;

with nicer drivers

maybe some posters maybe for the following;

to inform people to use a hanky before they snivel in my ear and suck there own snot down there own throats.

Or not scream into there mobile phones for a period not likely to be less than one hour (in a language I dont understand )

or cuss the inspector when he has the temerity to ask them for a ticket

Or show me the contents of there mouths whilst eating a pack of Walkers Cheese and Onion crisps.

I'd take that over any bus-stop.

All this technical innovation is a solution to a problem no one is experiencing. The money would surely be better spent fixing Turin's notorious traffic light sequencing problems.

Pete, the bus stop is in Florence, not in Liverpool!

I thought they meant Florence, Mississippi.

lol, prefer my car tbh