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Forum: General Chat 21-01-2013, 19:37
Replies: 179
Views: 7,688
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Accrington's new bus station "to be"

I really can't see anyone want ing to come to Accrington for anything, other than perhaps to visit relatives...the Market is abysmal, likewise the Market Hall.
Forum: General Chat 23-07-2012, 07:03
Replies: 179
Views: 7,688
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Accrington's new bus station "to be"

or a car park.......for the people who won't come to the dying Arndale and the dead market.
Forum: General Chat 16-12-2011, 21:52
Replies: 179
Views: 7,688
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Accrington's new bus station "to be"

You know these great unwashed who lurk around Abbey St, allow the elderly nun to walk down into Accrington to get their provisions....and she returns up Infant St loaded down with bags, in the...
Forum: General Chat 16-12-2011, 20:39
Replies: 179
Views: 7,688
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Accrington's new bus station "to be"

The council, the last one, spent God knows how much of our money putting a fancy surface down on Broadway and within weeks the blooming stuff was coming off........the contractors had to be called...
Forum: General Chat 16-12-2011, 17:05
Replies: 179
Views: 7,688
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Accrington's new bus station "to be"

Sue it is fine if you can walk.......I take Ma out and about and she does try, but she can only walk a few yards.
I am old-ish too and relatively fit, but I have friends who are older and have no...
Forum: General Chat 16-12-2011, 16:48
Replies: 179
Views: 7,688
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Accrington's new bus station "to be"

She needs all the help she can get Sue :D
Forum: General Chat 16-12-2011, 16:47
Replies: 179
Views: 7,688
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Accrington's new bus station "to be"

Kate I am saying what the oldies are saying(those we travel with on bus journeys......those who don't have computers to tell you themselves).
And as I say, that walk is fine for you as you are...
Forum: General Chat 16-12-2011, 15:11
Replies: 179
Views: 7,688
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Accrington's new bus station "to be"

You mean like the sunken gardens we used to have on Broadway...many years ago...before your time I suspect.
Forum: General Chat 16-12-2011, 15:08
Replies: 179
Views: 7,688
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Accrington's new bus station "to be"

Kate, I was never much good at deciphering plans.......so I gave up looking at them.

I know several older people(we shop for one of them) who go into town on the bus and just go in the Market...
Forum: General Chat 16-12-2011, 14:36
Replies: 179
Views: 7,688
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Accrington's new bus station "to be"

This new bus station will not inconvenience the young and fit, but it may inconvenience the older people and those with toddlers and prams......these are the people who do use these services.

It...
Forum: General Chat 16-12-2011, 14:33
Replies: 179
Views: 7,688
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Accrington's new bus station "to be"

Yes, they did.........and they may still have the same facility for shoppers.

I don't know if Tesco have had some input in where the new bus station would be sited, but it will certainly be more...
Forum: General Chat 16-12-2011, 13:56
Replies: 179
Views: 7,688
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Accrington's new bus station "to be"

It would make an even greater up to minute bus station......and revitalise the Market and the market hall by filling it instead of having it half empty...and looking unloved.
But hey, it is only my...
Forum: General Chat 16-12-2011, 13:45
Replies: 179
Views: 7,688
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Accrington's new bus station "to be"

Sue, I pass the train station regularly on my way up to see Ma...it rarely seems busy.

I just hope that there are a lot more people like you, who feel that this development is in the right...
Forum: General Chat 16-12-2011, 13:16
Replies: 179
Views: 7,688
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Accrington's new bus station "to be"

I can see the appeal of an interchange in big places like Manchester and Bury...where people do use different modes of transport to get to their destination - but, Accrington.......come on! The only...
Forum: General Chat 16-12-2011, 11:29
Replies: 179
Views: 7,688
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Accrington's new bus station "to be"

I wouldn't be at all surprised Taggy.

It makes me wonder if Tesco had a hand in this Bus station move, (I strongly suspect that it did...Ok you can call me an old cynic)as it moves everyone nearer...
Forum: General Chat 15-12-2011, 16:44
Replies: 179
Views: 7,688
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Accrington's new bus station "to be"

Well, Graham Jones has been saying all along that this new site isn't big enough.
I think the market will die a death and the Market hall will be available to all those who want to use it for arty...
Forum: General Chat 06-10-2011, 09:50
Replies: 179
Views: 7,688
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Accrington's new bus station "to be"

I hear what you are saying but is difficult for some transport users to attend meetings.......were these consultation meetings ever publicised? I don't remember seeing any publicity about...
Forum: General Chat 05-10-2011, 19:50
Replies: 179
Views: 7,688
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Accrington's new bus station "to be"

Yes, much too much like common sense.

It must be common, since quite a few of us have thought of it.
Forum: General Chat 05-10-2011, 19:07
Replies: 179
Views: 7,688
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Accrington's new bus station "to be"

That was my suggestion ages ago.
Forum: General Chat 05-10-2011, 19:07
Replies: 179
Views: 7,688
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Accrington's new bus station "to be"

Disabled parking doesn't help if you do not have a car.
If you are reliant on public transport, and let's face it a lot of the elderly are....they the market hall may lose their custom. It is Ok...
Forum: General Chat 05-10-2011, 08:20
Replies: 179
Views: 7,688
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Accrington's new bus station "to be"

The older people are traditionally, who still shop in the Market Hall....because it is what they have always done.
Forum: General Chat 05-10-2011, 08:18
Replies: 179
Views: 7,688
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Accrington's new bus station "to be"

Well Flashy, maybe that is because you are young and fit........there are many who aren't and for those, it will take trade away from the Market and the Market hall.

It is moving the centre of...
Forum: General Chat 05-10-2011, 08:12
Replies: 179
Views: 7,688
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Accrington's new bus station "to be"

Ok if you have access to a car, but for those elderly and infirm, the bus station being moved down to Crawshaw St. does the Market and the Market hall no favours at all.

With this development I...
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