00:02First installed in 1975, Canberra's brutalist bus shelters weren't an instant hit.
00:10Not everyone loved them. They were a bit rash and bright, but they're in our DNA now, 50 years later.
00:18A familiar fixture, not only on the city's streets, but on mugs, magnets, patches and puzzles.
00:26Just when you think something can't be made out of a bus shelter shape, it's made.
00:30Designed by architect Clem Cummings, more than 400 remain in use today.
00:35When people see this they know it's Canberra. Some of them have escaped across the border.
00:40There's one in Queensland, a couple in northern New South Wales and a few around the place.
00:44The Cummings family nominated the shelters to the ACT Heritage Register to recognise their historical, design and community significance.
00:54We all have an immense sense of pride of what Dad was able to achieve.
00:58One of the bus shelters most distinctive features is that they're relocatable.
01:03Meaning that even as Canberra expands, these old designs continue to pop up in new neighbourhoods.
01:11Under the heritage listing, Transport Canberra will continue to maintain the bus stops.
01:16They'll be here for another 50 years at least, which is wonderful.
01:19Safeguarding a solid piece of the city's character.
01:23Do you too.tera
01:24You
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