Sir Donald Bradman Drive Bus stops

This is just one of those odd little things you will find in Adelaide — not odd in a bad way, rather odd in a lovely way; if you care to look at the bus stops along the side of the road in most parts of the city and surrounds they are rather ill conceived things covered with advertising and providing not shade or a cool place to wait for a bus, but a metal and glass structure that is likely to assist in you baking under the hot Adelaide sun in summer and freezing and getting drenched in the bleak cold and wet winter.
City Councils are actually responsible for the bus stops in their area, that’s why some areas have lots of bus stops and some areas have none. Ironic, it is, the areas with the least population and classed as developing areas tend to be the places where you’ll be lucky if there is a bust stop that has any cover at all. You are more likely to get cover in an area that is well established and has a god revenue income stream based on the advertising sales on the bus stops in the area.
Now the rather lovely odd thing I am pointing to here are the bus stops you will see along the Sir Donald Bradman Drive. He was a cricketer, a very well loved cricketer, from Adelaide. Australia has an obsessive fixation on cricket and football. cricket largely because it represents an area where we can as a nation smack our ‘mother country’ England in the guts quite frequently with our winning teams — any way Sir Donald Bradman, the cricketer is so well loved by Adelaide because he represents someone Adelaide can claim as a product of this fair (unfair) city that all along this Drive named after him there are things that astonish — such as these lovely little bus stops.
They are designed and created by artists rather than the same old dumpy pumped out by whomever creates the horrible ones you see everywhere else. These do no more at protecting you from the elements, but they are unusual and different.
Now I believe the council is responsible for the ultimately, so big thanks to the council. I find them a fun element. Something to cherish and love about this well loved street/​drive due to the two reasons I site here now — in tribute to Sir Don, and — because this is a route from the air port and it gives a good impression generally…