A drive to replace old wooden bus shelters with new modern glass versions has hit a stumbling block and the community is being asked to help.
Vandals are smashing the safety glass panels, leaving the Hastings District Council with much increased maintenance costs.
The annual bus stop maintenance budget has already been overspent, just four months into the financial year.
Three of the district's 36 glass shelters are particular targets, one in Heretaunga St West, one on Peterhead Avenue and one in Flaxmere Ave. HDC has spent over $20,000 repairing the Peterhead bus stop since 2015.
The options are to use some other kind of material to close them in, or to remove the shelters and just have bus stops.