“SPECIAL circumstances” have led the City of Mandurah to install a shelter at an Old Pinjarra Road bus stop.
The Teranca Mews Residents Association handed a petition to council in September with 84 signatures requesting a shelter at their closest bus stop as it was exposed to the elements.
“The age of the people here is increasing all the time and therefore there are less people driving and needing the public transport,” the association’s secretary Jill Lever said.
“[The need for the shelter] is becoming more pressing.”
A planning decision has been made to install a reconditioned bus shelter on Old Pinjarra Road, and is expected to be installed in the next couple of weeks, despite the low number of users deeming the shelter as unnecessary.
Ms Lever said there were other retirement homes in Mandurah with shelters at their bus stops, so it seemed fair the Greenfields facility had one too.
She said about half of the residents relied on the bus service, with even more relying on it to use to get to the train station.
“It’s only five minutes on the bus to get to the station so it’s very convenient,” she said.
“Most of the time you can’t get a park at the train station so we just use the bus.
“There is a seat which helps but in the winter it is very exposed.”
The shelter will come out of the City’s funding set aside for installing bus shelters in the current 2014/15 budget.
