There is need for a less hazardous environment for residential areas, shopping areas, school and public buildings. There is also need for fewer road crossings, fever high kerbs, more accessible refuges, more time to cross wide busy streets, better signing of essential destinations and continuous footpaths. A ramped shelter to aid elderly and handicapped persons to board buses is described. It has a floor ramped to bus platform level and handrails that guide passengers up or down. The bus driver brings the bus to a stop at the precise position so that the bottom half of the door, which hinces outwards, may drop down to form a bridge across to the top of the ramp, where a ledge receives it. The upper half of the door also opens outwards as a pair of half-doors to create sides with handrails across the bridge. The gradient of the ramp is less steep than 1 in 12 recommended for kerb ramps.
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