tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post2351150804714539655..comments2024-03-25T22:17:35.616+00:00Comments on Public Transport Experience: Exeter's Long Running Pantomime ...fatbusblokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06833340546527596517noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-63476446739609688282017-10-10T13:23:17.597+01:002017-10-10T13:23:17.597+01:00Now staying open until spring 2018 - see Devonlive...Now staying open until spring 2018 - see Devonlive. Oh yes it is .....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-37483372680143005622017-09-26T18:48:44.445+01:002017-09-26T18:48:44.445+01:00Unless you happen to be in a PTE area, where bus s...Unless you happen to be in a PTE area, where bus stations still rule, witness Bolton.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-82270767691950131912017-09-26T18:44:24.702+01:002017-09-26T18:44:24.702+01:00The saga goes back much further to when there were...The saga goes back much further to when there were plans by Burton's to redevelop their Debenhams site (now John Lewis) plus the surrounding parts of Sidwell Street and the bus station site which would all have become a huge shopping centre with the bus station moving to where MFI was (now Vue cinema). Burton's got into financial trouble, abandoned their property development arm and the plans were abandoned.<br /><br />The logical solution today is to do up the existing bus station (which is the right size and well located) and make the lower level available for redevelopment now that it's no longer needed as an overnight bus park. Councils, however, don't do logical and are far to wedded to their own over-egged pet projects which usually become expensive white elephants and continue to cost ££££££ for ever more....Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14886052305644290736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-24682865746116256322017-09-26T14:48:36.277+01:002017-09-26T14:48:36.277+01:00Sorry not Barnstaple, that one is still hanging on...Sorry not Barnstaple, that one is still hanging on in there... substitute any of these though: Exmouth, Newton Abbot, Shanklin, Ventnor, Cardiff of course, or Blackpool!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-28553041747699429362017-09-26T14:26:00.525+01:002017-09-26T14:26:00.525+01:00A decent bus station as a focal point and transpor...A decent bus station as a focal point and transport hub in a town or city is, I'm afraid, a thing of the past... the land is worth more sold off by the asset stripping council, or indeed bus company! Look how many we can think of that have disappeared: just off the top of my head there's Plymouth, Barnstaple, ilfracombe, Salisbury, (or sailsbury if you're First South Western Railway), minehead, Southampton, Haywards Heath etc etc. Exeter needs a poxy arts centre like it needs a hole in the head. The northcott struggles to survive, so it really needs yet another theatre that will need to be constantly propped up by bail outs from exeters council tax payers.Mackayhttp://www.mouse.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-75473943578971566202017-09-26T10:14:44.918+01:002017-09-26T10:14:44.918+01:00Having just come back from a weekend in Cardiff th...Having just come back from a weekend in Cardiff the bit I was especially impressed by in all the chaos was the 'Where to Board Your Bus' maps on many of the stops which dated from August 2015 and so didn't include any of the services operated by NAT and were out of date for many of the Cardiff Bus routes as well (again council provided information).dwarfer1979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-83008264556637963722017-09-26T09:30:04.461+01:002017-09-26T09:30:04.461+01:00They will probably claim that the new on street ar...They will probably claim that the new on street arrangements are wonderful and don't cause any problems!!!!!!!!!!!! Job done. Sell the whole of the site to a developer. Councillor applauded. Clive Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059026405966912480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-22285554732912267092017-09-26T08:45:50.264+01:002017-09-26T08:45:50.264+01:00"overclouded" - didn't spot that one..."overclouded" - didn't spot that one, Andrew!fatbusblokehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06833340546527596517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-81503948503637442972017-09-26T07:51:42.519+01:002017-09-26T07:51:42.519+01:00Another successful project from our awful RMT bus ...Another successful project from our awful RMT bus rep playing councillor. At least now he can focus on screwing Exeter bus travellers even more with his beloved RMT's planned strike action.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-21297896594187629432017-09-26T07:47:52.544+01:002017-09-26T07:47:52.544+01:00Meanwhile, across the Bristol Channel, things are ...Meanwhile, across the Bristol Channel, things are little better in Cardiff: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/plans-cardiffs-new-bus-station-13367126. And we've already lost our ld bus station.<br /><br />By the way, I like your word "overclouded" - presumably the sun comes out sometimes, even in Exeter?Andrew Kleissnernoreply@blogger.com