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http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.u....Blackburn_s_new___5m_bus_station_move_is_on/
(For more prose and images see link, I tried to make it as brief as possible.)
I'll admit Blackburn bus station is poor, however I'm not a fan of this. The railway station and bus station are, as things stand, a 3 minute walk platform-stand, they are on opposite sides of the road. The only reason this is happening, forget the drivel Mrs Hollern speaks in the link, is the CoE wanting the land back, which the bus station is built on. The way of 'small interchange' I suspect that means a stand and a timetable, and not much more, certainly there won't be room after the church has built apartments and shops on the land, as they plan (even though there's already empty shops and flats in town waiting to be filled, 2 minutes away). As for the new site, I'm sick of these modern designs. All it needs is a concourse, info office and buffet, which could be provided on the current site, not a glass and steel tumour like they built at Newport (South Wales) railway station. It would destroy the interchange at Blackburn, which many use, making rail-bus (for the destinations the new smaller current site couldn't provide) a 5 minute minimum walk over two relatively busy roads or through a dark subway.
THIS is Blackburns new £5million glass-fronted bus station which will welcome passengers from autumn 2015.
The covered complex, which will take 18 months to construct, will be sited on part of the town centres old market site following a decade of searching for the necessary cash and best location, the Lancashire Telegraph can reveal.
Council bosses said the enclosed, airy, warm and secure Ainsworth Street building will include a cafe and be equipped with the technology for London Transport Oyster-style cards to speed passenger boarding and real time information screens.
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The first stage of the long-awaited redevelopment of the former Blackburn market site, the bus station will have a single central concourse with direct access to 14 bus boarding and alighting bays.
There will be a staffed travel information office, cafe, cash machines and public toilets with a disabled access WC and baby change facilities.
It will be closely linked to the new £8 million indoor market and Mall shopping centre while a new smaller bus interchange will be built next to the railway station as part of the towns £30 million Cathedral Quarter development, with most main services stopping at both places.
The new plan, scheduled to start in April next year and due to take 18 months to complete, is one of the key parts of unlocking the further redevelopment of the town centre.
The bus station plans will go on show for two weeks from today on a special stall next to the visitor centre.
(For more prose and images see link, I tried to make it as brief as possible.)
I'll admit Blackburn bus station is poor, however I'm not a fan of this. The railway station and bus station are, as things stand, a 3 minute walk platform-stand, they are on opposite sides of the road. The only reason this is happening, forget the drivel Mrs Hollern speaks in the link, is the CoE wanting the land back, which the bus station is built on. The way of 'small interchange' I suspect that means a stand and a timetable, and not much more, certainly there won't be room after the church has built apartments and shops on the land, as they plan (even though there's already empty shops and flats in town waiting to be filled, 2 minutes away). As for the new site, I'm sick of these modern designs. All it needs is a concourse, info office and buffet, which could be provided on the current site, not a glass and steel tumour like they built at Newport (South Wales) railway station. It would destroy the interchange at Blackburn, which many use, making rail-bus (for the destinations the new smaller current site couldn't provide) a 5 minute minimum walk over two relatively busy roads or through a dark subway.