Better Late Than Never

This is a design idea that came to me about how to rectify this issue of personal space and people not using a shelter to its capacity. If there were a pad of concrete or some base, with bar stool-like seats sunken into the ground in seemingly sporadic arrangement, more seats would be occupied than with a traditional bench. The stool pedestals would eliminate the idea of someone sitting next to you and create the feeling of a personal bench, personal space. Thus more people would make use of the space and wheelchair accessibility would be made much simpler. This represents a shift of thinking with traditional bus shelters however; It is not a place you stop and take a load off, sit and wait, but more of an active rest area. The previous precedent studies have shown that most people stand at bus stops anyway regardless of what shelter is available, this taps into that, and creates a semi-standing rest position which may be more comfortable and appropriate for the situation.