Astral Media has figured out that one-sided shelters are more trouble than they’re worth, and won’t put up any more of them.

We reported Tuesday on a new shelter at Broadway Ave. and Mt. Pleasant Rd. that has only one glass wall and a roof, which TTC riders find annoying because it offers almost no refuge from the elements.

Many readers have complained about them, but usually don’t know they’re used only in areas where there isn’t enough room to erect a full-sized shelter with glass on all four sides.

That doesn’t make them any less disappointing to people who feel short-changed, especially when they see big ones at other TTC stops and can’t understand why their stop got one that is all but useless.

Ron Hutchinson, a senior vice-president of Astra, which has a 20-year contract to provide the city with street furniture, said the reasons for using the one-sided shelters are “largely misunderstood.

“We get a lot of criticism about the small shelters, and our advertisers aren’t exactly thrilled. Nobody is very happy with them.

“But we don’t run around rogue and install whatever we want,” Hutchinson said, adding the city has the final say on where they are used.

From now on, “if there isn’t enough room (for a full-sized shelter), we won’t put a shelter in. We need to stop doing that, since nobody likes them.”

About 50 “canopy shelters” are already in place and won’t be taken down, he said, adding that if the city asks for one in a particular location, Astral will put it up.

A full-sized shelter costs about $25,000, including a concrete foundation, but Hutchinson said Astral can’t cheap out by putting up a one-sided shelter, since the cost is almost the same.

Astral will install 220 shelters in 2013 with no advertising on them, and 280 more with advertising, in new locations or as replacements for old shelters.

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