Cabbies fearing loss of business to late night buses. Cabbies able to pick up passengers at bus stops. Preston bus only weeks from being bust, Stagecoach saves jobs and pensions. Mayor says bus station underpass dangerous. It’s all happening on the buses according the the Lancashire Evening Post. www.lep.co.uk
Of these the bus station underpass is the easiest to comment on. What about making a fenced footpath across the concourse controlled by lights and gates into St Johns. You could put a water splash at the bus entrances, like a moat to stop pedestrians. Imagine the headlines – bus passengers drowned, that would stop them.
The mayor is right though and it’s not only that it’s dangerous it’s inconvenient. Typical of planners to make pedestrians walk long distances to reach something not too far away. They never learn, have you seen all those wavy footpaths with the grass worn in straight lines on either side.