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Post by wivenswold on Apr 22, 2015 18:13:45 GMT
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Post by Red Dragon on Apr 22, 2015 19:06:15 GMT
Absolutely despicable.  . It makes you see how lucky us Londoners are to have a proper, coordinated and quite often accurate bus service, which others in the counties don't have. |
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Post by vjaska on Apr 22, 2015 19:58:25 GMT
I love your sarcasm  The fact that the council tried to say that putting correct information up at the stops is 'an act of vandalism' beggars belief  |
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Post by snoggle on Apr 22, 2015 20:17:22 GMT
 While the usual venom is reserved for the politicians in the comments section under the article it's clear Mr Kay has support. It does seem to be a ludicrous over reaction by the Council. It also seems clear that ECC have cocked up a series of bus stop changes in connection with the new Park and Ride scheme in Colchester.
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Post by wivenswold on Apr 22, 2015 22:00:14 GMT
Add to that the town council have made a right old pigs ear of the bus station. They decided to build an arts centre on part of the old bus terminal and have since been trying to convince us that three bus stops in a street is our all new bus station.
Still it's a good place to come when you're all missing your Tridents and other first generation hand-me-down low floor buses.
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Post by wivenswold on Apr 22, 2015 22:06:07 GMT
And here it is! cms.esi.info/Media/origImage/78523_1372259457097_PF.jpgI should point out that the bus stops and the glass canopy were there for about 20 years. The blue perspex band with Colchester Bus Station on it and a waiting room that looks like a conservatory were added. Some expense was, I understand, spared. Possibly the only "bus station" in Britain with an A-road running through the middle of it though. |
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Post by snoggle on Apr 22, 2015 22:37:01 GMT
And here it is! cms.esi.info/Media/origImage/78523_1372259457097_PF.jpgI should point out that the bus stops and the glass canopy were there for about 20 years. The blue perspex band with Colchester Bus Station on it and a waiting room that looks like a conservatory were added. Some expense was, I understand, spared. Possibly the only "bus station" in Britain with an A-road running through the middle of it though. I've never really understood how the mess that is now the "bus station" at Colchester came to pass. Now OK the former bus station under the multi storey car park wasn't wonderful but it was a separate bus station. That then got rationalised after the car park went but again there was still a genuine bus station with waiting areas, a travel office, toilets etc. I confess I haven't been back to Colchester for many years so that was my last experience of the place as I had a ride out to Elmstead Market on the 76. Not sure where I'd get a 76 these days. I'm even amazed that three of the big groups continue to defend their respective patches in Colchester and its hinterland although the former independents have pretty much vanished these days after Go Ahead took out their cheque book. |
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Post by wivenswold on Apr 23, 2015 7:28:00 GMT
The saga was as comical as it was annoying.
I could write a book about the farce of the Firstsite Arts Centre that was built on the northern half of the original bus station site. But to save you all time: Councillors rushed ahead with an ego project without costing it, money ran out mid-build. More money was diverted, no more money for a nice bus station, they convinced locals that the plan was always to put it in the street. Colchester Council then recovered some of the overspend from the contractors who walked away from the project and that money disappeared into the system.
The 76 still trundles its way between Colchester and Clacton and it's only recently stopped being serviced by Volvo Olympians but even though I live close to the route, I have no idea where I'd catch that bus from.
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