A Metro rider gets out of the rain while waiting for a bus on eastbound Market Street. Metro removed the windows and walls from the shelters at the stop in August and have not yet replaced them.
The wet and windy weather of winter in Seattle is returning, and the bus shelters at the major Metro hub on eastbound Market Street between 24th Avenue and 22nd Avenue remain without windows and walls.
Metro crews removed the windows and walls for cleaning and repair Aug. 12.
Metro spokesperson Linda Thielke said the windows and walls were removed from the purple structures outside Root Table and Market Street Shoes as part of ongoing maintenance for those types of bus shelters.
Thielke said she is not sure when the windows and walls will be replaced.
One woman waiting for the bus on a rainy October morning said it would be nice to have some shelter from the winter elements.
But, Annabelle Fogerty, who commutes from the Market Street stop, said the lack of walls and windows doesn't make much of a difference.
Fogerty said the eastbound shelters at least have the long benches, whereas the stop across the street has uncomfortable small ones.
