The city is yet to get over 1000 designer bus shelters — new steel frame bus stops that have replaced the old green cement bus stops with red poles — which were approved way back in 2007 but haven’t been built by private contractors.

Sources in Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) said that of the 1,800-odd bus shelters, which were originally approved, around 800 have been erected. Of these, 450 are 12-feet high while 130 are 18-feet high. Apart from this there are over 200 bus stop poles too, which are just single metal rods on which bus stop numbers are mentioned on a blue plate.