A Pink Garden

Yesterday, I came across an email, which is showing the photos of a pink garden named Shiba Sakura or Moss Pink located at Hokkaido, Japan. I would like to share with you as it is admiring. Enjoy it!!

I had searched some information of this kind of plant. This Moss Pink, with scientific name, Phlox subulata, is a perennial creeper growing to a height of 6 inches and covering a 20 inch wide area. The small, five-petaled flowers bloom in rose, mauve, blue, white, or pink in late spring to early summer.

According to news, this plant give off an odor that can supposedly be mistaken for marijuana. This has been known to cause altercations between gardeners and law enforcement personnel or criminals.

However, is this kind of garden attracting you?

Engineering Failure in Korea

Say No to Boring Bus Stop!

The creative bus stop canopy.

Ikea bus stop - changing from a normal bus stop to a living room.
They have more than 600 different ones all over New York City for the Design Week.
"Good design can make everyday a little better."

Scented bus stop - advertisers have been getting smart by appealing to consumers' multiple senses.

A wooden bus stop shelter decorated with a wind mill theme - Jalasjarvi.

This odd snake house is a bus stop in Ventura, California.

The new bus stop in Rueschlikon - changes colours at night.

The 'Viking' bus stop in the historical part of Dublin, Ireland.

Shopping bags and bus stop - Singapore.

Stained glass arted bus stop - Columbia Park.

A bus stop at rural area - Moskwa.

Typical Canberra bus stop.

This bus stop from outer space has appear on Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe.

The McMurdo (Antarctic) bus stop is warm and sheltered from the wind.

(Source of photos: Internet)

Quality of a bus stop sign

Here are some of the good quality of a bus stop sign:

• the words 'bus stop' appear
• in whatever lettering style
• in a contrasting colour
• mixed case or capitalised
• the right way up
• on a constrasting background
• with sufficient space around them
• the right amount of space between the words

Let's compare the bus stop sign from different countries.

This is one of the many kinds of bus stop in Singapore. For every pillar at all the various bus stops, you can see the Bus Stop number, for example, 11261 on this bus stop sign.

Chicago Surface Lines bus stop sign

New York City Transit's Buses cover a lot of ground as this Manhattan bus stop sign shows.

This is a bus station sign in Dublin, Ireland.

Amman's streets (Arabic) new bus stop sign. It has a slightly curved surface and back. Detailed routes of bus services are shown.

Notice the left panel of the bus stop sign in Columbia.

High technology bus stop sign giving bus information.

(Source: Internet)

Why bus stops are important?

A bus stop is a designated place where a public transport bus stops for the purpose of allowing passengers to board or leave a bus. It is a point of transition where an enquiry starts to become a journey.

A simple and common bus stop.

Bus stop - has 3 main kinds of stops:

• Scheduled stop: The bus uses the stop irrespective of demand. This can be done to simply avoid confusion, or to ensure correct running to the timetable.
  
• Request or flag stop: The bus will only stop to allow boarding or alighting if requested.
• Hail and Ride stop: Stops may only be called at to set down a passenger at their request.

All the information at the bus stop needs to give confidence, through being well presented and up to date. It is important that the location and name of the stop has been accurately provided to traveline. This brings to the importance of a bus stop sign.

Compare the following bus stop signs.

What do you think about the above bus stop sign? Is that having sufficient information for passengers?

Or this one is better?


The bus stop sign will sometimes contain the route numbers of all the buses calling at the stop, optionally indicating frequent, infrequent, 24 hour and night services.

All the information at the bus stop needs to give confidence, through being well presented and up to date. It is important that the location and name of the stop has been accurately provided to traveline.