What are those green bulbs at Everett bus stops?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Green metal bulbs are sprouting along Broadway.

They are bike racks, equal parts infrastructure and public art at 22 bus stops along north Everett’s main road.

Everett redid Broadway’s bus stops between 34th and Tower streets in recent years. Several now jut from the existing sidewalk to the road, which helps with bus schedules since drivers don’t have to wait as long to get back in the lane compared to pull-off stops.

They’re called bus bulbs or bulbouts. A $3 million state grant paid for that work.

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/what-are-those-green-bulbs-at-everett-bus-stops/

[markie]

1. at approx 150K each

hmmm "function and beauty are in the eye of the beholder" they are pleasant enough but don't see room for too many bikes???

[abqtommy]

2. Here in Albuquerque all our transit buses have bike racks on the front that can carry up

to 4 bikes. Ride the bus and take your bike along and lots of people do just that.

That's preferable to what I saw in Pakistan as a child which is luggage space on top of all
the buses at that time. A lot of bikes went up there too.