Gladys We discovers (from gizmodo) that you should wait at a tree-lined bus stop:
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A study by the University of Minnesota which conducted surveys of 822 riders at 36 local transit stations (buses and light rail). The survey asked riders to record their perceived wait time for the next bus or train and compared that to the actual wait times, which were observed via video. They then factored in local environmental elements—air pollution, vehicular traffic, and trees—to see how those affected perceived wait times.
Heavy pollution and cars speeding by made waits feel longer, of course. Big leafy trees made waits feel shorter. But it turns out that even if a stop had bad pollution and traffic, the presence of trees helped negate them and ended up reducing perceived wait times overall:
The results show that, for waits longer than five minutes, the more the environment is polluted and exposed to traffic, the more transit users tend to overestimate their wait time and that, on the contrary, the more mature trees are present the shorter the wait time is perceived. The combination of the three variables indicates that after five minutes wait, the presence of trees achieves to compensate the effects of both air pollution and traffic awareness.
