The following report is from Smart Cities World:
The City of Sydney has begun the installation of digital bus shelters as part of an architect-designed street furniture roll-out.
Construction work will be done in stages to minimise disruption across the City of Sydney’s 26-square km area and will run from November until February 2022.
Digital Bus Shelters
The 340 new digital bus shelters are based on a modular design and will offer more sun and rain protection and better accessibility. Thermal glass roofs will help to reduce sun exposure and heat in hot weather, and are designed to improve overall comfort and comfort for people waiting at transport stops.
They also feature full-height advertising screens that can display real-time event information, community updates and public safety messaging.
The City of Sydney is also doubling the number of public toilets across the city, adding 160 new information pylons with interactive touch screens and more streamlined kiosks. It will also be installing more of the award-winning benches and litter bins designed by Sydney firm, Tzannes.
City of Sydney CEO, Monica Barone, said the infrastructure, designed by Grimshaw Architects, will transform the city’s streets for residents, visitors and businesses, while old street furniture will be recycled as part of a sustainability plan.
The contemporary sustainable and energy-efficient street furniture will make the city more accessible for more people to enjoy.
Much of the street furniture we’re replacing is more than 20 years-old. This is an excellent opportunity to revamp and reshape our streets for the future and further support Sydney’s post-Covid recovery.
A new long-term agreement with QMS Media will provide significant revenue to the City of Sydney, which will help us provide and maintain high quality services and public spaces.
The need for kiosks has significantly changed over the past 22 years since they were first installed, and land use within the city centre has evolved. The number of city kiosks in the central business district will be reduced from 55 to 18. There are two new kiosk designs tailored to suit street access and use for different areas around the city. The kiosk update will reduce clutter on city streets, improve accessibility and enhance pedestrian amenity.
The upgrade of street furniture follows the signing in 2020 of the 10-year deal with QMS, with an option for a five-year extension.
The new street furniture network will set a new standard for function, accessibility and sustainability – and will be more advanced as an advertising network, with bigger displays optimised for visibility and attention, and significantly more digital panels for greater impact.
QMS general manager, city of Sydney, Jemma Enright.
Andrew Cortese, managing partner of Grimshaw, said the aim was “to create a distinctive and elegant ensemble of street furniture that gives service and amenity to Sydney’s streets, its parks and the public realm.”
This design affirms Sydney’s standing as a progressive and citizen-oriented city with continued investment in public infrastructure. The design is digitally enhanced, resolved to place, heritage and the natural landscape, and has an enduring materiality and resilience. It’s a design that is unique to Sydney.
The number of accessible public toilets across the city will be doubled from 10 to 20. The new toilets will be fully accessible and 10 of the new installations will have an extra ambulant toilet in areas of high demand. Ten of the new accessible toilets will have green roofs. This will naturally cool the toilet unit interior and enhance the public domain with increased greenery in the city area. The toilet units are designed to be able to connect to the city’s underground recycled water network in the future.
Meanwhile, the new pylons will be used to display event information and important public messaging. New interactive touch screens will make wayfinding easier and the new ergonomic design will make it easier for people who are vision impaired.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Based on how many Aussies have been getting the death jab, I don’t think some of you “hooligans” and “rebels” will be having to worry a lot about this smart city stuff taking full effect.
But, this also just shows how insane these devil-possessed leaders are. They are concerned about replacing park benches and new toiletries, but have no issue beating people to a pulp for not wearing a mask and utterly ruining their lives.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I used to think that the animals were the deadliest thing to worry about in Australia. Politicians are number one. Only difference: politicians go to hell and the animals go to heaven because they only do what comes naturally.
Under the pretext of providing shelter, but in truth just to saturate people’s brains with more advertisements and propaganda. People have almost no respite anymore from these things. Literally being stalked everywhere they go.
Resolved to ‘heritage’…not. They won’t be putting God’s word up on their Beast system digital fulfillments of prophecy.
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Nearing the bottom of the Romans 1 slide, and worse, the apostasy of 1 Timothy 6:10 and 2 Peter 2. Those on the high end of the government dole who get paid the big bucks to come up with this crap & impose it on those who neither wanted nor asked for it must be ‘righteous’ like the Swedes, eh?