Fife Council bus stop in Dundee? Anybody know why?

[roadierway77]

Hi all,

Just came across this bus shelter clearly marked with Fife Council logos on Google Maps, placed in a car park at the back of the Grosvenor Casino in Dundee. Does anybody know why a Fife Council shelter has ended up in Tayside? Seems to have been there since at least 2008. I've attached an image from Google Street View, the car park is just off Brown Street on the west side of the city centre.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Fundee on Tay]

I’ve known about this stop for some time. But can’t think of why it might be in Dundee!

 

[GusB]

Is it an actual bus stop, or is it just a shelter that has been placed there?

 

[roadierway77]

Is it an actual bus stop, or is it just a shelter that has been placed there?

It definitely doesn't seem to be in use now if it ever was a bus stop, it may well have just been a shelter that was bought and placed there, but honestly not sure.

 

[GusB]

It definitely doesn't seem to be in use now if it ever was a bus stop, it may well have just been a shelter that was bought and placed there, but honestly not sure.

If it's not actually a bus stop, my guess is that it has probably been placed there as a smoking shelter and that the company responsible for supplying it has just used any old thing that's lying around!

One of life's oddities, I suppose!

 

[roadierway77]

If it's not actually a bus stop, my guess is that it has probably been placed there as a smoking shelter and that the company responsible for supplying it has just used any old thing that's lying around!

One of life's oddities, I suppose!

Yes that was my thinking as well, probably bought cheap. Does the job I guess!

 

[Roger1973]

The 'smoking shelter' seems the most likely, although it does sometimes happen that one of the national companies that does bus shelters will repair a shelter in town A with parts from a shelter in town B, and there are occasions when a part shows the wrong place. There was a shelter in (from memory) Slough that got repaired and (for a short while) showed a poster with a bus map for somewhere in south Wales...

 

[fgwrich]

The 'smoking shelter' seems the most likely, although it does sometimes happen that one of the national companies that does bus shelters will repair a shelter in town A with parts from a shelter in town B, and there are occasions when a part shows the wrong place. There was a shelter in (from memory) Slough that got repaired and (for a short while) showed a poster with a bus map for somewhere in south Wales...

Indeed. This will be the reason. For a while, my local bus stop was advertising The Zip & The Star services operated by First Solent... despite being at the other end of Hampshire. It was just a reconditioned shelter that had survived a number of years in Portsmouth.

 

[Deerfold]

For reasons I'm not sure of, when a temporary stop is placed on the roadside in West Yorkshire it seems to be more likely to have the logo for Travel South Yorkshire than West Yorkshire's Metro.

 

[tom1649]

For reasons I'm not sure of, when a temporary stop is placed on the roadside in West Yorkshire it seems to be more likely to have the logo for Travel South Yorkshire than West Yorkshire's Metro.

We have the Travel South Yorkshire ones in Derbyshire too!

 

[Fundee on Tay]

The 'smoking shelter' seems the most likely, although it does sometimes happen that one of the national companies that does bus shelters will repair a shelter in town A with parts from a shelter in town B, and there are occasions when a part shows the wrong place. There was a shelter in (from memory) Slough that got repaired and (for a short while) showed a poster with a bus map for somewhere in south Wales...

As it’s not at a current bus stop at the moment and is just in a car park, I think the theory that it’s a smoking shelter is more likely.

 

[stadler]

On three seperate occasions in Surrey i have seen someone with a van with a Kent County Council logo changing the bus stop timetables. This was once in Cranleigh and once in Dorking and once in Guildford that i saw this. So i wonder if some councils contract things out to neighbouring councils. That could be a reason how this shelter ended up there.

 

[Man of Kent]

On three seperate occasions in Surrey i have seen someone with a van with a Kent County Council logo changing the bus stop timetables. This was once in Cranleigh and once in Dorking and once in Guildford that i saw this. So i wonder if some councils contract things out to neighbouring councils. That could be a reason how this shelter ended up there.

If that goes back to Arriva days, at one time they were Kent County Council's contractor for all roadside publicity. I would surmise that they were changing their own publicity in Surrey.

 

[roadierway77]

As it’s not at a current bus stop at the moment and is just in a car park, I think the theory that it’s a smoking shelter is more likely.

I'd agree. Would likely be a very cheap option for any business seeking to add a smoking shelter, rather than build a new structure. Just nab a couple of old bus shelters from Fife Council; they may have even been acquired for free.

On three seperate occasions in Surrey i have seen someone with a van with a Kent County Council logo changing the bus stop timetables. This was once in Cranleigh and once in Dorking and once in Guildford that i saw this. So i wonder if some councils contract things out to neighbouring councils. That could be a reason how this shelter ended up there.

Potentially yes. It would be easy for a bus stop in a car park off a side street to be forgotten about, especially if no longer served by any services, hence why the branding hasn't been changed.