A transit shelter is a terrible thing to waste, when it could be put to better use in another location.

We’ve been writing about transit shelters that are taken away for one reason or another and not returned, which generated upwards of 20 complaints and is a sore point with people who have to do without them.

The complaints were forwarded to the city’s street furniture division, which says it hopes to restore at least some of them, subject to the availability of replacements.

We know where they can find a few, along a former TTC bus route where the shelters have not been used in more than a year, while riders at stops without them shiver in the cold.

“When people want a new transit shelter they are often told that no more are available now,” David438 reported on SeeClickFix.

“There are actually four of the new ones on the old Bay (No. 6) bus route, two on the west side of Lower Jarvis St., north of Queens Quay, and two more on the east side of Freeland St.,” north of Lake Shore Blvd., he said.

“The No. 6 bus was rerouted permanently about 18 months ago to serve the new George Brown College waterfront campus. It’s about time the city moved these shelters to better places.”

We found only one on Lower Jarvis, next to Loblaws, and two on the east side of Freeland, including one of those canopies with a single wall, which are roundly despised because they offer no real shelter.

The lower Jarvis shelter had a small snowbank in front of the entrance with no footprints in it, a pretty good tipoff that nobody is using it.

Given the weather of the past two weeks — winter is officially still a few days away — and what is surely coming, they’d be welcomed at any of the locations where a shelter was picked up but not put back.

STATUS: We’ve emailed Carly Hinks, who’s in charge of street furniture for the city, to ask if the shelters could be moved to TTC stops where they’ll be appreciated.

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