Gimme shelter!

All the people loved it. There were six seats used by mothers with babies and children, not forgetting old people and pregnant mothers. At the bus stop was a request stop (where lots of different buses would stop, but only if you put your arm out. There was also information along the top of the bus shelter so you knew which buses stopped outside the bus shelter.

One day, when the people came to the bus shelter, there was a big, square, expensive-looking sign to tell people who used the bus shelter which buses stopped there and what time (just like the timetable inside the bus shelter did). The people who used the bus shelter were very surprised to see this big sign because, not only did it give them the same information, they thought that it must have cost a lot of money.

But, worst of all, it blocked out the view of buses coming down the hill so that someone had to wait outside and watch for the bus.

After a few weeks, the bus shelter was taken away and replaced by a new one. This was very big but it had no seats for the old and mothers with babies.

This is the end of the story about the bus shelter at Snig Hill. Now the people wait outside because they can’t see when the bus is coming; the mothers with children and old have nowhere to sit. But, they are pleased that the people in the Town Hall have found something to spend the money on things that the people didn’t want anyway.

Ms Heather Wather