No fanfare as £2m bus station goes into gear

8:32am Friday 16th November 2012 in News

COLCHESTER'S new £2 million bus station will open without fanfare on Sunday.

Services will start operating from the new terminus, in Osborne Street and Stanwell Street.

But there will be no immediate ribbon-cutting or official unveiling by the authorities behind it - Colchester and Essex County councils.

Instead, a ceremony is planned for a few weeks' time.

The station has a waiting lounge, two shelters with seating and improved toilets.

Passengers can find out information from electronic timetable screens and information pods.

See today's Gazette and Essex County Standard for more.

Comments(9)

chainsawgirl1 says...
9:07am Fri 16 Nov 12

It is a stupid place to put a bus station! I have already been blocked in by incompetant bus drivers blocking the exit from the Vineyard Street Car Park. I even took a photo of them as I was at a stand still.

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Bert_Stimpson says...
9:34am Fri 16 Nov 12

No fanfare because they're scared that it will be a complete and utter disaster (as it may well be). It's not a bus station. Barton's Folly is a big bus stop and a £2m smoking shelter for Gala Bingo users. The whole bus station saga in Colchester is testament to the incompetence of all the officials and authorities involved over many years. And don't get me started on the Golden Fleecers in their rusty Firsts*ite shed...

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Sdapeze says...
10:17am Fri 16 Nov 12

Yawn!

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Sdapeze says...
10:19am Fri 16 Nov 12

Apparently we are seeking City of Culture status. Why not go for City of Whinger status too? We could surely out-whinge anybody.

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Reginald47 says...
11:00am Fri 16 Nov 12

Too true! Most people couldn't care a jot what bus station we have. Or none.

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Iansnelling says...
10:10pm Fri 16 Nov 12

This new Bus station looks like the pile of **** it has been replaced with in the old bus station a total wast of money and as it is known, as firstshite.

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wellnow says...
8:44am Sat 17 Nov 12

it is a pity the bus stops were not opened along with banning private vehicles from the town centre.what a lovely pedestrian christmas that would have been.

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jim_bo says...
8:31am Tue 20 Nov 12

Why does everyone keep going on about pedestrianising the town centre?

How many times have you shopped on the High st? There's only W&G and that's it, so making it a walking zone is a waste of money and resources.

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Boris says...
3:15pm Thu 22 Nov 12

Reginald47 wrote:
Too true! Most people couldn't care a jot what bus station we have. Or none.
Only an idiot petrolhead would write such arrant nonsense.

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