2023年5月22日 · Last Thursday in Los Angeles, city transportation officials held a press conference to proudly unveil an exciting improvement to the too-hot, too-long, and too-dangerous experience of riding the...

La Sombrita (Spanish for "The Little Shade") is a prototype sunshade created for the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT). [1] Its purpose was to assist female bus riders by offering shade during the hottest hours of the day and providing sidewalk lighting at night.

2023年5月19日 · LADOT describes La Sombrita as a "new design [that] allows shade structures to be installed more quickly and at a lower cost and is the result of LADOT's survey of women who rely on transit and requested more shade and lighting at bus stops."

2023年5月25日 · A media alert breathlessly announced a “First-of-its-Kind Bus Stop Shade Structure” and framed it as part of an effort to bring gender equity to public transit.

2023年5月25日 · Critics have mocked the design of La Sombrita, one of four new installations at bus stops in Los Angeles that are designed to provide shade during the day and light at night. LADOT, via...

2023年5月23日 · The Los Angeles Department of Transportation is testing a new bus lighting and shade project, seeing if the overhead ledge installed at four bus stops is effective and if it should expand...

2023年7月12日 · Hundreds of thousands of bus riders will wait without shade on the hottest days of 2023, but this hasn’t stopped city officials from touting new bus shelters as part of a response to extreme heat at the launch of its new awareness campaign, Heat Relief 4 LA.

2023年5月22日 · For the price of one La Sombrita, 441 people could carry the same amount of shade and light with them to any bus stop in the city. For the price of the entire pilot program, nearly 12,000...

2023年5月18日 · LOS ANGELES — A bus stop at the intersection of 3rd Street and Union Avenue is the site of an ambitious new pilot program to bring shade, lighting and safety to female transit riders. On Thursday, the Los Angeles Department of Transportation unveiled its new La Sombrita, or little shade, in four LA neighborhoods.

2023年5月22日 · New bus shelters at four stops in Los Angeles are supposed to provide shade and safety to people waiting for the bus, but critics say it's not enough relief from the heat or enough room to...