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Originally Posted by katex
The plans were for Crawshaw Street, which was the perfect location.
Not going to express my opinion again on this .. have said enough before. 
It is sad that it has been ditched .. a new bus station was very much needed and would have been state of the art.Would have given outsiders a greater impression and encourage visits to our town.
Peel Street has never been a bus station, just bus stops causing congestion and danger. It buggers up the plan to replace it with a square which would have been extremely beneficial and more pleasing to the eye/useful than what is there now, encouraging visitors to our town. What's to bet you will all be whinging about it in the not too distant future.
No, the accident was not the cause .. just coincidental.
I am exasperated and upset ...  |
I think you're right, Peel St has never been a purpose built bus station. It's just a street that happened to have bus stops on it.
I also think it is dangerous.My view is that this stems partly from the fact that Peel St was never really designed as a proper bus station.
Moving the bus station also opens up as you say the possibility of developing Peel St.
It may well now come to nothing if we don't get the funding. And yet had the Council been more decisive when the plans were first put forward, the funding could have already been in place.