@AaronMk
 
 
Could just be a stop on a infrequent rural route provided by a transit agency purely for the purpose of equitable access to transit for rural people.

@Greenjack
 
Olivet’s a little more towards Lansing than it is Detroit, and I only really venture the Detroit-Lansing corridor and I don’t generally end up in the Lansing-Jackson area, or Battle Creek.
 
Come to think of it, the furthest passed Lansing I’ve been was Grand Ledge I think for a brony meet I went to on a lark one summer a few years back.

@AaronMk  
You find the same effect if you go out far enough in the detroit area. I have cousins that live up that way, so when driving through we came across that from time to time. also came across a nice little town called Olivet with a great bar/diner. I can’t find any online evidence of it existing, but it was just down the street from the gas station. They had some of the best service I’ve ever seen.
 
Damn, I was looking for where it was, and it’s closed down now. I was gonna suggest it if you were ever going along highway 69 and needed a meal that’s quick, cheap, and good. Oh well. it was the coachlight inn, and the poor reviews for the stagecoach inn (which was near enough to be a problem) apparently killed it (if the owner’s remarks when we talked to her were any indication) It wasn’t pretty, but it was a genuine gem of a dive bar (which I seem to have oddly good luck stumbling across).

@AaronMk  
I think this is a Finnish bus stop. I’m a Finn myself, and I immediately recognized the familiar bus stop sign logo.

@Greenjack
 
Well to be fair to the more mid-parts of the mid-west (compared to where I am, Michigan) cities like Saint Louis sort of boomed in a comparatively weird spot with the rail ways and slaughter houses. So they just sort of happened as metropolitan islands among a sea of farms.
 
Meanwhile in south-east Michigan in the Detroit-Lansing corridor where I live it’s more-or-less a consistent area of development along the I-96 corridor.
 
If only we had trains.
 
 
@TheAntiCat  
Japan is practically entirely urban with its density, so it’s no wonder. :^)

@AaronMk  
I’m more perplexed by the vending machines littering the sides of roads in Japan!

@AaronMk  
Here in St Louis there’ll be blocks of office buildings with fields of wheat, corn, or wild grasses across from them where old buildings used to be, but nobody did anything with the lot after it got torn down.

@AaronMk
 
It’s Ponyville!  
They’re out there!

“Rural Route 9! … Crackton! … Airport Refuelin’ Way! …”

I want to know what part of the country you have to be in for there to be a bus stop out in the middle of the country by what looks like a corn field. Whose commuting from there?

We’ll just wait for the bus.  
Should be here, any, minute now.
 
Waiting…for the bus…
 
…  
…  
…..
 
That’s it, we’re walking.  
*clopclop clopclop*
 
Wahwahwahwahhhh  
Tssss bvroooom!
 
Ah crap X(