[g jones]

On the drawing board is a large bus stop at the current site somewhere to get on and off. Clearly for Hyndburn West residents (and further) this won't help.

I am sure Peel Street would have remained the bus station had the pavilions not taken up the space back 2002. Since then there is overcrowding on stops, breaking of rules on laying over and bus sprawl up Infant Street and Bridge Street.

When everyone including bus users have signed up to the new site, I cannot see it being rolled back. I take on board the point that bus users who use the market hall will be inconvenienced by this and there will be quite a few. Car parking does favour the young and more affluent (sounds odd?) but the car parking potential is significant and opens up traffic/trade to the south of the TC.

I also think there are a lot of good suggestions to increase trade. New people, new ideas and certainly a new spirit of working together for the best.

Issues at hand, people hanging around, shoppers with little money (read £ shops), nice buildings - shame about the rest of the look, Blackburn Rd around Davies's, awful redesign of Broadway, undesirable premises such as amusement arcades, isolation of Warner St and Abbey Street, old arcade, Church Street, night scene, lack of recognised brand shops, 2-16 Broadway, bus station onto Blackburn Rd, bus stop at Peel Street as mentioned, opening town hall to two way traffic, Cannon Street and more.

If only we hadn't built over the Blackburn bus lane!