Residents can share their views as Colchester Council is hosting a meeting to discuss the future of the city’s bus station.
Work is underway to improve the dire situation of the bus station in Osborn Street, as an eager community initiative is pushing for change.
Branding the facility as “Britain’s worst bus station” public transport users and residents have made their voices heard among council and highways bosses.
A residents panel will meet on March 26, 10am to 12pm, to gather ideas for a better station.
The meeting will explain the project process, which is still at an early stage.
No site has been chosen yet, and Essex County Council and Colchester Council are talking to operators, residents and groups to find a workable location that uses the current infrastructure.
People can still sign up, but they must live in or around Colchester and be 18 or over.
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To sign up to be part of Colchester’s residents panel, visit the council’s website.
A petition calling for urgent work on an off-road bus and coach interchange received about 1661 signatures, and the councils have said the city needs a new bus station as part of developing options for a full transport interchange if funding is secured.
Team Colchester has said upcoming regeneration works around St Botolph’s Circus are intended to lay the foundation for future bus station interchange improvements, alongside short-term upgrades to existing stops and junction changes.
The current Osborne Street station opened in November 2012 at a cost of £2million, with maintenance complicated by land ownership split between Colchester Council and Essex County Council.
In 2020, National Express stopped using the bus station after drivers raised safety concerns, moving its Colchester coach stop to East Hill, about a ten-minute walk away.
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