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David McNair
Apr 15, 2024
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Update on bus shelter bill

County BOS member Diantha McKeel called the "sunset clause" in a bill designed to make it easier for localities to install bus shelters a "poison pill" added late in the legislative process.

“The clause gives localities only one year to put in bus shelters themselves, but a year is not enough time for localities to do this,” McKeel told the DTM. “It’s a disaster.”

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Governor Youngkin agreed. He amended the bill extending the sunset clause from 1 year to 3 years and returned it to the General Assembly for approval.

Currently, the process of building bus shelters must go through two huge state bureaucracies, the Department of General Services and VDOT, which have code requirements and processes that make installing a simple bus shelter ridiculously complicated and expensive, officials say. House Bill 285 hands that authority over to lo…

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