After contacting Works In Progress regarding Chris Allert's article in last month's issue, reporter Rachel Young wrote a fine piece for the Olympian (10/18/2006) about the removal, and by that time, the replacement of the bus shelter in front of DeGarmo's Compounding Pharmacy.

When the bus shelter went missing in late September, Allert called Intercity Transit and was told that owner Richard DeGarmo had requested its removal due to the amount of litter it seemed to generate. DeGarmo was out of town at the time, and could not comment for the WIP article, which urged readers to call both . . .

Not long after Chris Allert's WIP article urging readers to call both IT and DeGarmo's and request the return of high-traffic bus shelter, it suddenly re-appeared. October, 2006. (photo by Sandy Mayes)

by Chris Allert

You may recall that back in 2002 the bus shelter at Harrison & Division was removed, and then replaced a short time later. On Sunday, September 24, I noticed that the shelter had been removed again. I remembered reading about the issue in Works In Progress at the time, so I looked it up on the WIP web-site ( http://www.olywip.org ). I learned that what happened in 2002 is that the owner of the pharmacy adjacent to it complained about the litter, and so Intercity Transit removed the shelter. In response to the Works In Progress article, enough people complained to both . . .

Bus riders and their packages were dry and comfy on this warm September day. But this now-barren concrete slab in front of DeGarmo's Pharmacy will be a wet and windy place to wait for a bus once the weather turns. (Photo by Sandy Mayes)