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Power Saving, WiFi, LED bus stops making their way into San Fran
Ricardo Trejo
San Fran, the home of the treat, Rice-a-roni, is planning on making 360 "Muni" bus stops - haha, get it? Each stop is going to cost $30,00 each to construct, so, uhhh, hence the name. Well, actually just kidding. The Municipal Transportation Agency has a contract with the company, Clear Channel Outdoor, who are going to fund the entire installation of maintenance of all 360 stops as long as they get the rights to sell ad space on them. After doing the math it'll cost them somewhere around $10.8 Million. That's a lot of money for a couple hundred bus stops.
So what makes these bad boys so special? Well, how about LED lighting that'll be 4 and a half times more efficient than the fluorescent lights now, Wi-Fi routing to help sustain a city wide online network, and not to mention it will channel somewhere in the ballpark of 43,000 kilowatts-hours per year into the city's power grid.
When can you expect to see these futuristic stops on a street in San Fran? 2013. That's not TOO far off.
[Via Popular Mechanics]
