- Target:
- Cardiff Council
- Region:
- United Kingdom
- Website:
- binthebusbox.blogspot.com
The Bus Box is a failure – give Cardiff a full-sized modern bus station.
Cardiff Council plans to replace the bus station with an integrated transport hub within the next two years.
The present “transport hub” in Westgate Street stretches over 100 metres, with inadequate shelters and seating, and poor pedestrian routes to Central Station and a second “transport hub” by the Library. That 'hub' stretches round John Lewis's into Custom House Street, has poor shelters open to the weather, no seating and no toilet or cafe facilities. Car parking and pick-up obstruct bus movements. Like the “Bus Box”, the “transport hubs” are a recipe for rotten facilities and no priority for buses.
** Sustainable Travel City funds should be suspended until Cardiff Council agrees to give proper space and priority to a central bus station
** The plans for a massive Central Business District should be frozen pending the LDP and/or called in for a special public inquiry, on account of their impact on inadequate public transport services, increased demands on travel and implications for high carbon and ecological footprints.
the Bus Box is a failure – give Cardiff a full-sized modern bus station.
We condemn Cardiff council plans to replace the bus station with an 'integrated transport hub' within the next two years and leave us with an undersized Bus Station in Central Square. Their Bus Box spreads out stops, has worsened conditions for bus users waiting and transferring buses, and doesn't work on event days and evenings.
We demand a full-sized bus station not a “transport hub”, with covered waiting and information facilities, covered link to the train station, modern standard seating, toilets and cafe, that functions 24/7. Cardiff council's failures show we need genuine consultation on designs for the new station.
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The Bin the Bus Box. We demand a proper bus station for Cardifff. petition to Cardiff Council was written by Anne Greagsby and is in the category City & Town Planning at GoPetition.