(22 Sep 2021, 12:31 pm)Train8261 wrote [ -> ]https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor...e-21607381
Work to start on Northumberland Square and Howard Street soon and to expect completion in Summer 2022
Wonder how bus service are gonna work when Howard Street gets work started
Presumably use Stephenson Street with Howard St and Northumberland Square being permanently closed
There's that new transport hub being done as well. Wonder when that's gonna start work
(23 Sep 2021, 11:38 am)Train8261 wrote [ -> ]There's that new transport hub being done as well. Wonder when that's gonna start work
Do you have any links to that?
(23 Sep 2021, 1:22 pm)Keeiajs wrote [ -> ]Do you have any links to that?
There's links to the plan for North Shields
Google: North Shields Transport hub or North Shields regeneration plan
But there isn't any direct link to the Transport hub itself
Looking through both plans. There is two different versions of the bus station
Being in North Shields over the past few weeks. Around where the bus station is to go is what looks like spray paint on the ground and talking to the owner of a cafe near the metro station the council bought all the buildings where it is going. They are going to do Howard Street first then close Iceland down then start work on the bus station
(10 Oct 2021, 10:49 am)Train8261 wrote [ -> ]Looking through both plans. There is two different versions of the bus station
Being in North Shields over the past few weeks. Around where the bus station is to go is what looks like spray paint on the ground and talking to the owner of a cafe near the metro station the council bought all the buildings where it is going. They are going to do Howard Street first then close Iceland down then start work on the bus station
Unless plans have changed for a third time, I don't believe Iceland is planned to close. It's only the co-op which is going and they've already shut down for it.
![[Image: 0_An-early-design-showing-proposed-trans...square.jpg]](https://i2-prod.chroniclelive.co.uk/incoming/article19702242.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/0_An-early-design-showing-proposed-transport-hub-and-town-square.jpg)
That's the latest plan I believe.
(10 Oct 2021, 7:05 pm)Storx wrote [ -> ]Unless plans have changed for a third time, I don't believe Iceland is planned to close. It's only the co-op which is going and they've already shut down for it.
That's the latest plan I believe.
It's confusing due to 3 different plans of the bus station. Yet what's werid. All shops apart from Iceland have been bought and closed down by the council for the bus station to start. Yet Iceland remains in the same place. It looks so out of place
Not unless the plan is to build round Iceland and keep Iceland slap bang in the middle and the bus station built behind it.
From photo's that's been took of North Shields showing the general area of where rhe bus station will be
https://flic.kr/p/MAPSy4
https://flic.kr/p/Jy9GJK
https://flic.kr/p/i2EfY5
https://flic.kr/p/i9aQeY
https://flic.kr/p/2mybqxt
Last photo is mine and the rest are other people's
Out of the 5 photos of buses shown next to the big building next to the metro station is where the bus station is meant to be
(10 Oct 2021, 7:40 pm)Train8261 wrote [ -> ]It's confusing due to 3 different plans of the bus station. Yet what's werid. All shops apart from Iceland have been bought and closed down by the council for the bus station to start. Yet Iceland remains in the same place. It looks so out of place
Not unless the plan is to build round Iceland and keep Iceland slap bang in the middle and the bus station built behind it.
From photo's that's been took of North Shields showing the general area of where rhe bus station will be
https://flic.kr/p/MAPSy4
https://flic.kr/p/Jy9GJK
https://flic.kr/p/i2EfY5
https://flic.kr/p/i9aQeY
https://flic.kr/p/2mybqxt
Last photo is mine and the rest are other people's
Out of the 5 photos of buses shown next to the big building next to the metro station is where the bus station is meant to be
If I'm right the bus station is where the yellow is and always has been. What's changed is now instead of them knocking down the light blue area they're now knocking down the green area instead as it's cheaper since the Metro doesn't run underneath. Don't think it's ever been planned to knock down Costa / Iceland / the old Burger King or McDonalds unit. The back half of the Co-op has been abandoned for years, it used to be one big shop at one point but then they only kept the front half.
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(10 Oct 2021, 10:54 pm)Storx wrote [ -> ]If I'm right the bus station is where the yellow is and always has been. What's changed is now instead of them knocking down the light blue area they're now knocking down the green area instead as it's cheaper since the Metro doesn't run underneath. Don't think it's ever been planned to knock down Costa / Iceland / the old Burger King or McDonalds unit. The back half of the Co-op has been abandoned for years, it used to be one big shop at one point but then they only kept the front half.
Yea looking at the yellow is to be the bus station. Yet there 3 different versions of the transport hub. Which all 3 are to fit in that small space (in yellow) I think the blue part is the part there gonna demolish but the cafe owner says that they bought the building (in Green)
(11 Oct 2021, 12:52 pm)Train8261 wrote [ -> ]Yea looking at the yellow is to be the bus station. Yet there 3 different versions of the transport hub. Which all 3 are to fit in that small space (in yellow) I think the blue part is the part there gonna demolish but the cafe owner says that they bought the building (in Green)
Nah it's definitely the Green that's going now, it's changed quite recently, the Blue was the original plan though.
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor...r-19702147 - There's an article here explaining why, it's easier than me explaining but it's due to the Metro tracks.
Unless Nile Street is made two way again though, it's got a massive flaw as the 1 and 306 towards Newcastle won't serve it since they have to take a massive detour around Shields to get out.
So the plan is to build the bus station next to the metro station. God I wonder how this is gonna be for the buses in North Shields itself since most of the roads round Bedford Street and Rudyard Street will have to be closed while the bus station is built
From Wednesday 13 October
There will be some changes to routes, timetables and stopping arrangements for routes which serve North Shields Town Centre due to the closure of Howard Street and Northumberland Square. Passengers who normally use the stop on Howard Street (41n13 - adjacent to the Library) should instead a new stop on Stephenson Street near the junction with Suez Street. Passengers who normally use the stops at Northumberland Square (41n04 & 41n16) should instead use stop 41n03 on Albion Road.
Work might be starting soon on the bus station as Metal Fence has been put around the area where the bus station is planned to be
(09 Nov 2021, 1:37 pm)Train8261 wrote [ -> ]Work might be starting soon on the bus station as Metal Fence has been put around the area where the bus station is planned to be
Bus Station?
Wooden fence has been put up around the building next to Rudyard Street
Around the building where the Interchange is planned (next to Rudyard Street) North Tyneside Council have put pictures up of what it will look like
Name has been shown in one of the photos as
North Shields Transport Hub above the bus stands