RTS plans to add bus shelter in Medina behind Medicine Shoppe near municipal lot

Photo by Tom Rivers: RTS Orleans has this bus shelter in Albion on South Main Street near Walgreens, and also has one in Holley along Route 31 near the Holley Gardens apartments, which is also the former Holley High School.

MEDINA – RTS Orleans expects to soon be adding a new bus shelter in Medina, a project that has been talked about for several years.

The transportation organization is planning to put the shelter off Church Street in a spot behind the Medicine Shoppe pharmacy near a municipal lot.

The shelter will be paid by RTS. It will be on a 7-by-17-foot concrete pad with a 5-by-9-foot ramp because the spot doesn’t have a sidewalk, said Mayor Marguerite Sherman. There will be one bench inside the shelter.

RTS expects to award the bid later this month. The project doesn’t need village permission except for the sign.

RTS has been looking for spots for the shelter and wanted it in the downtown area. It met with village officials and considered a shelter on a sidewalk, but the sidewalks were too narrow, Sherman said.

The spot behind the Medicine Shoppe allows the buses to pull in easily and they aren’t impeding traffic. They can also come into the shelter location from East Center Street near the St. John’s Episcopal Church, and they easily go around the church to head back to Albion, Sherman said.

The Regional Transit Service has run a public transportation service in Orleans County since 2003. It has six buses in the county, and they are parked outside by the County Highway Department on West Academy Street.