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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
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.
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The main complaint re. the siting of the new bus station appears to be its 'great' distance from the Market Hall !!
Please look again where it is to be situated, will not be more than 200 yards to get to it, and passengers will have much further to walk to their homes after they alight at their chosen bus stop.
If they have the energy to do this, as well as trail around the market, sure this 'step and a stride' will be no hardship. They do visit places like M & S too, you know ... can tell that by the clothes they stock; must pay off.
At least when they get there, it will be a safer and a more comfortable wait for their bus. Much easier for people with wheelchairs and prams as wider passenger loading areas. Up to the minute information too, to inform passengers of approaching buses, etc.
Peel Street is not a bus station, and never was. Now, it is just a nasty, ugly, unsafe, smelly environment.
To be exchanged for another seems like madness to me. How many spaces would this proposed car park hold, I wonder ? Car drivers in and out, around and around, coming from all directions to seek a space... utter chaos.
To invite more trade into a town, you have to first present the town as aesthetically pleasant, which a square would do. I would definitely linger in a place like this, and might even encourage me to browse the market, which I don't do now... have never liked them.
By the way, Margaret, if you look at the 2.5 million for funding for the Victorian Arcade, it also includes improvements to Blackburn Road.