Photo: Shane Clausing

By Shane Clausing

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Council to discuss adding heated bus shelters at Towne Centre Mall location

Mar 16, 2022 | 1:08 PM

Grande Prairie city council will debate at next Monday’s meeting if they should install two new heated bus shelters at the Towne Centre Mall Transit Hub.

At a committee meeting Tuesday, Transit Manager Steve Harvard presented a report regarding the heated shelters.

Each shelter comes with a price tag of $100,000 for taxpayers.

Harvard tells EverythingGP adding the shelters to this area would make sense as the city begins to expand its public transit footprint over the next several years.

“It’s been a while that we’ve heard the downtown transit exchange is lacking in some of those amenities,” Harvard said. “Certainly, it is a perfect time for us to look at that. In addition, there was interest from council to see what we can do with the current location.”

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Harvard adds with a redesign of the city’s transit system coming over the next few years, adding two heated stations would help keep things consistent with other transit hubs/stations in the city.

“There is a heated shelter at Northwestern Polytechnic and there is one in the process of currently being installed at the Eastlink Centre,” he noted. “During our inclement weather with the cold and wind this (would be) the perfect place for people to wait for their connections.”

Heated shelter at Northwestern Polytechnic. Photo: Shane Clausing

Harvard mentioned the Towne Centre Mall Transit Hub is already the busiest location in the city and says it will get busier over the next couple of years.

“It’s our busiest location and it will become busier under the transit redesign because all of our routes will be transferring downtown at that point and time,” he explained.

“Currently, only four of six routes do that, so it will be even more important that we have enough capacity for people to be sheltered from the environment.”

Council will also discuss the addition of four new benches at the Towne Centre Mall facility.

New signage for the transit hub is also scheduled to go up in the spring as part of the transit redesign marketing campaign.