350 bus shelters with gardens on top: Britain's stops become bee highways

A bus shelter is a roof with a timetable — unless someone plants it. Bauer Media Outdoor UK and The Wildlife Trusts are marking five years of partnership in which more than 350 'Living Roofs' have been installed on bus shelters across the UK: shallow gardens of sedum and wildflowers that give bees and other pollinators somewhere to rest and feed in the middle of paved cities. Councils from Barnet to Burnley to York have planted their first; Derby's shelters helped the city win a Bee's Needs Award. The partnership has also put £2 million (about $2.7 million) of media space behind the Trusts' campaigns — advertising hoardings working for the wildlife that flies past them.

SDG 15 · Life on land — Mechanism: infrastructure build