This column's recent exposé on iconic Canberra bus shelters beyond our borders resulted in one of the biggest mailbags in years. It seems there are many more of these little pieces of Canberra dotted around eastern Australia than even the most devoted afficionados could ever imagine.
Several readers, including Lynne Staunton, report that many of these Clem Cummings-designed shelters are still used as bus stops on the Central Coast of NSW. In fact, Kylie Beer was so taken by seeing them on road trips there that she confesses to having "stopped the car to make my kids look at them out of their natural environment".
