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Post by Eastlondoner62 on May 16, 2024 11:35:48 GMT
The stations have aged wonderfully. Always a delight to be in one. The bus stations, not so much. Canning Town Bus station is looking a bit bleak now! It’s been in a state of disrepair for a few years now! It had temporary scaffolding put up when part of the glass roof collapsed but don’t think any attempt has been made at repairing the roof. The bus station has had lots of issues with the road surface with frequent repairs made. This was especially bad in the early years. One point that’s really annoying about this bus station is that there is no dedicated crossings when you exit the tube station to head across Silvertown Way. Buses have priority but luckily that are generally travelling at slow speed and mostly let pedestrians cross. I think Canning Town needs a West Croydon style rebuild. The lack of scaffolding being removed suggests whatever work is required is extremely major and it's just easier to leave the scaffolding support up instead.
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Post by vjaska on May 16, 2024 11:43:04 GMT
Canning Town Bus station is looking a bit bleak now! It’s been in a state of disrepair for a few years now! It had temporary scaffolding put up when part of the glass roof collapsed but don’t think any attempt has been made at repairing the roof. The bus station has had lots of issues with the road surface with frequent repairs made. This was especially bad in the early years. One point that’s really annoying about this bus station is that there is no dedicated crossings when you exit the tube station to head across Silvertown Way. Buses have priority but luckily that are generally travelling at slow speed and mostly let pedestrians cross. I think Canning Town needs a West Croydon style rebuild. The lack of scaffolding being removed suggests whatever work is required is extremely major and it's just easier to leave the scaffolding support up instead. As nice as the current West Croydon Bus Station is, it still has a major flaw that the old one didn’t - it’s open to the elements. That needs to be taken into consideration when replacing these bus stations
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Post by enviroPB on May 16, 2024 13:14:07 GMT
I think Canning Town needs a West Croydon style rebuild. The lack of scaffolding being removed suggests whatever work is required is extremely major and it's just easier to leave the scaffolding support up instead. As nice as the current West Croydon Bus Station is, it still has a major flaw that the old one didn’t - it’s open to the elements. That needs to be taken into consideration when replacing these bus stations That has been taken into consideration- bus stations nowadays are deliberately designed to be as 'open air' as possible to deter homeless people sleeping in what was enclosed spaces. I remember reading the Newham Mag at the time of the Olympics which boldly & blatantly stated just that about Stratford bus station's redesign. It is reminiscent of homeless spikes sadly.
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Post by overgroundcommuter on May 16, 2024 23:25:13 GMT
I had a girlfriend who lived near Canada Water station, so we went to Bermondsey station first when they were running the shuttle service before it joined up with the existing Jubilee Line at Green Park. It was such a contrast to how that area felt cut off, despite being in Zone 2 and close to Tower Bridge that suddenly you could travel from Bermondsey or Canada Water into Central London in such a fast time. Before that I'd meet her at Paddington after she'd see family in Wales and then had to use the H&C to Whitechapel and then the ELL to Rotherhithe which took an eternity.
It all felt so modern and the carriages were empty! I still enjoy the JLE stations to this day which have held up well
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Post by southlondonbus on May 17, 2024 8:14:46 GMT
I had a girlfriend who lived near Canada Water station, so we went to Bermondsey station first when they were running the shuttle service before it joined up with the existing Jubilee Line at Green Park. It was such a contrast to how that area felt cut off, despite being in Zone 2 and close to Tower Bridge that suddenly you could travel from Bermondsey or Canada Water into Central London in such a fast time. Before that I'd meet her at Paddington after she'd see family in Wales and then had to use the H&C to Whitechapel and then the ELL to Rotherhithe which took an eternity. It all felt so modern and the carriages were empty! I still enjoy the JLE stations to this day which have held up well It's easy to forget how reliant People must have been on the 1, 188 and 199 to Elephant from that area. Not dissimilar to the Old Kent Road really now.
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Post by capitalomnibus on May 18, 2024 9:05:04 GMT
The stations have aged wonderfully. Always a delight to be in one. The bus stations, not so much. I must be the only person who really dislikes the underground stations on the extension, too dingy for my liking & too much grey in play as well. Give me the older stations elsewhere on the network or the two Northern Line extension stations instead. In fact, I'd prefer the three bus stations in all honesty ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) I went in North Greenwich and now it does look very dark and dingy. It looked very modern back in 2000, but it is showing its age compared to the Elizabeth line stations. I agree the bus stations are good.
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