Repairs to Wolverhampton bus shelters triples in six months
The number of repairs made to glass and plastic panels in Wolverhampton's bus shelters has more tripled in the last six months.
A total of 44 bus shelters were repaired in March, a vast increase on the 14 that required work in September 2014.
The figure has grown steadily over the last six months.
The figures were revealed by the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive following a Freedom of Information request.
They also showed that 27 bus shelters were repaired in February across the city.
Centro spokesman Pete Cameron said the transport authority had taken measures to reduce the number of incidents of bus stop vandalism.
These include the installation of more resilient shelters and fitting CCTV at noted trouble spots.
Centro says it replaced 141 glass panels on 72 shelters in the city in the year up to November 2014.
Many of them were located in and around Birmingham New Road, although bus shelters have also been destroyed in Chapel Ash, Bushbury, Fallings Park and Heath Town.
The total cost of repairs to shelters in Wolverhampton last year was more than £3,000.
Centro maintains more than 1,000 bus shelters across the city and operates a policy of fixing every broken shelter within two weeks.
