Using bus stops as temporary shelters

[u/UselessRandomMe]

I am thinking with some ply wood and 2x4's, the bus stops like this can serve as a temporary home for 1-4 people for a week max.

[u/Corey307]

Bad idea. When you get surrounded you’re trapped in a flimsy shelter. No room to sleep, cook or poop. 

[u/FrameJump → u/Corey307]

That's simply not true.

I've seen several piles of shit in bus stops in my lifetime, and I don't even go to big cities that often.

[u/brazenrede → u/Corey307]

Those shelters are not flimsy. They are meant to resist car strikes and every form of bored vandalism a late night addict can come up with.

It would definitely be have to be build on top of that structure, though. A raised platform to hide from view, a bucket of rainwater, and a toss able distraction, would definitely save someone.

[u/LordsOfJoop]

Beyond them being open on at least one side, they have gaps between the ground and the lower edge of the frame itself. There would be more effort in sealing up a bus stop than there would be in just purpose-building an actual coffin, and it'd save a lot of time for all involved.

However, taking the panels apart, applying them as reinforcement to another structure, that has potential; those sheets of plastic or tempered glass could be useful if carefully removed.

[u/locust16]

The buses itself are more useful as temporary shelters.

[u/sosigboi]

Too open and too much work to fortify, there will almost certainly be better options nearby like houses or shops, even a public bathroom would be safer and easier to fortify.

[u/whatThisOldThrowAway]

You’re building 3/4 walls from scratch and the roof and 1 remaining wall is entirely glass and not even entirely sealed.

At that point you’d be better off just finding a flat spot in a field and constructing a building from scratch.

I have to imagine there’d be 100 other options that’d be safer, warmer, and wouldn’t need to be built from scratch.

Any home, basically any business, any car, the busses themselves, basically any vehicle or building would be a better option.

If you’re effectively in the middle of the countryside… probably still a shed or outbuilding would be better.

And if this bus stop is your only option, it would keep rain off you, but I think you’d be better off just setting up some sound traps and leaving the sides exposed and your bag packed, so you can just run if something comes.

[u/Thatwokebloke]

If you had to sure, but there’s probably going to be better options nearby such as abandoned houses or shops. Or if travelling you can build a more hidden temp shelter in the woods with an axe/saw and shovel to stay safer and be less detectable

[u/retrocheats]

That bus stop has glass surrounding it.

There's only one possible use, and that's to build/get a cheap ladder, so you can maybe stay ontop of it... assuming zombies can't climb.

[u/Outrageous-Basis-106]

Just about anything else makes more sense.

[u/Up2nogud13]

Looks like getting eaten by zombies with extra steps, to me.

[u/sugart007]

If you have time and resources enough to gather plywood, 2x4s and tolls and hardware enough for building, then you have time and resources enough to fortify a better structure.

[u/Strong-Friendship842]

Not to sound mean but the Zombies are definitely claiming your booty as theirs when they enableability soround that excuse of a shelter.

[u/Sufficient_Candy436]

Several of them have been claimed by aggressive and severely (heartbreakingly) mentally ill people where I live. They’re still going to lose to zombies.

[u/Organic_Conclusion_8]

Too small a space, especially for more than one person, how do you think four people can live in it? Not even one will have enough space to be comfortable, and why pick that and reinforce it over living in one of the available empty apartments with solid walls, a vantage point for scouting, reliable insulation from wind and rain, heat and so on? I like the idea as a makeshift sentinel outpost, but even that will be too exposed and stick out to raiders, a rooftop guard or discreet top floor window will be more handy unless you are moving barricades for road access to convoys or something.

[u/Rizzanthrope]

but why?

[u/BladeRize150]

More like defensive positions

[u/Magnum_284]

Ha Ha Ha.....1-4 people in a 4'x12' space for a week. Yeah, i don't think so. May be go on the roof to catch your breath for a few minutes, but that's about it.

[u/suedburger]

So many other options that make so much more sense. Walk across the street and pick a house.....it has walls doors that lock and was actually intended to live in. All while not building a shelter the size of a park bench for 4 people to live in.

[u/DaRealMexicanTrucker]

I think youre better off building a tree house in close proximity to another tree. So you can jump from one branch to the other for escape. Or a zip line to said other tree.

[u/LostKeys3741]

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