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RE: Durham Bus Stn - deanmachine - 07 Jan 2024
(07 Jan 2024, 11:50 am)cbma06 I wonder if on the electronic display boards it will say if the bus is running late or cancelled, rather than using data from a timetable which doesn’t show. Won’t be long until Durham County Council will win awards for these electronic displays as the same in Nexus for Sunderland interchange electronic displays which there won awards but the displays doesn’t show buses that are running late or cancelled
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Or the fact Stand R in Park Lane still shows the 9's times despite the 9 not stopping there for about 5 years.
RE: Durham Bus Stn - BusLoverMum - 07 Jan 2024
(07 Jan 2024, 11:50 am)cbma06 I wonder if on the electronic display boards it will say if the bus is running late or cancelled, rather than using data from a timetable which doesn’t show. Won’t be long until Durham County Council will win awards for these electronic displays as the same in Nexus for Sunderland interchange electronic displays which there won awards but the displays doesn’t show buses that are running late or cancelled
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Hahaha ha. The ones at the college are still just warning us about the strike and the one opposite the hospital bears no relation to current timetables whatsoever.
RE: Durham Bus Stn - Ambassador - 07 Jan 2024
The ones along Durham Road either say please refer to timetable or show horrendously out of date route info
RE: Durham Bus Stn - Rob44 - 07 Jan 2024
(07 Jan 2024, 5:15 pm)Ambassador The ones along Durham Road either say please refer to timetable or show horrendously out of date route info
those ones used to work great years ago.
RE: Durham Bus Stn - streetdeckfan - 07 Jan 2024
(07 Jan 2024, 12:43 pm)Jimmi They've barely even started on Bishop Auckland Bus Station, went past yesterday and about all that's changed is some fencing put up around it, despite the presence of diggers, most of the stands are still intact.Fairly sure they knocked down the toilet block, The Hut, and driver rest block before Christmas.
From pics I've seen so far at least, they're just showing the scheduled departure times, probs just as well considering most of these displays with countdowns to arrival time within County Durham are often incorrect.
Honestly surprised the council managed to get it done that fast considering the amount of Asbestos that would have been in them!
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Durham Bus Stn - streetdeckfan - 09 Jan 2024
Somehow, they've managed to make the new bus station feel more cramped than the old one!
It's awful
There's also a severe lack of bins!
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RE: Durham Bus Stn - Adrian - 09 Jan 2024
(09 Jan 2024, 4:24 pm)streetdeckfan Somehow, they've managed to make the new bus station feel more cramped than the old one!
It's awful
There's also a severe lack of bins!
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I've not seen it in person yet, but I noticed that from a few photos of it last night. Doesn't look like it can handle an average Arriva peak time chaos service, that's for sure.
You can see from this drainage plan (only thing I could find of the previous site!), that the old bus station extended further out. Even more so at one end: https://publicaccess.durham.gov.uk/online-applications/files/038FC83F72EBF523ECFF4E7CA4567753/pdf/DRC_21_00398-EXISTING_DRAINAGE-3070656.pdf
RE: Durham Bus Stn - streetdeckfan - 09 Jan 2024
(09 Jan 2024, 5:20 pm)Adrian I've not seen it in person yet, but I noticed that from a few photos of it last night. Doesn't look like it can handle an average Arriva peak time chaos service, that's for sure.It's so narrow, much more so than the old one.
You can see from this drainage plan (only thing I could find of the previous site!), that the old bus station extended further out. Even more so at one end: https://publicaccess.durham.gov.uk/online-applications/files/038FC83F72EBF523ECFF4E7CA4567753/pdf/DRC_21_00398-EXISTING_DRAINAGE-3070656.pdf
It was absolutely packed when I was there, the only way to get up and down was to push through people up the back wall, or cut across the designated wheelchair 'parking bays' next to the doors, which is what most people did when changing buses.
I was lucky in that I managed to nab a seat after the 16 left, if it wasn't for that I would have been sardined in with the rest of the riff raff!
Maybe I'm blind, but I didn't spot a single bin in there, I had to just shove my meal deal wrappers in my bag. Probably explains why the floor was covered in litter.
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RE: Durham Bus Stn - BusLoverMum - 09 Jan 2024
The main difference in space is the removal of the shops between the concourse and North road. It's marginal gains, though.
The biggest gain is that there will only be about 80% of the buses using it, compared with 4 years ago. Probably not proportionally fewer passengers at chucking out time, though.
And if pasty guy is still around, he'll no longer be able to tape a. Cooplands bag to a random post.
RE: Durham Bus Stn - BusLoverMum - 18 Jan 2024
Less than 2 weeks and there is a broken window and one of the sets of doors out of use
RE: Durham Bus Stn - streetdeckfan - 18 Jan 2024
(18 Jan 2024, 12:32 pm)BusLoverMum Less than 2 weeks and there is a broken window and one of the sets of doors out of useAnd the fence at the end has been crashed into!
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RE: Durham Bus Stn - nova347 - 18 Jan 2024
Ah yes, I believe this was a Prince Bishop on the 20A service. I've actually got photos of the bus with 2 missing side panels.
It was 5429, which happened last Friday. It was the two panels before the wheel arch, and the wheel arch took a hit as well, tearing the side up. The two panels fell off the bus.
Durham Bus Stn - tyresmoke - 18 Jan 2024
(18 Jan 2024, 7:17 pm)nova347 Ah yes, I believe this was a Prince Bishop on the 20A service. I've actually got photos of the bus with 2 missing side panels.
It was 5429, which happened last Friday. It was the two panels before the wheel arch, and the wheel arch took a hit as well, tearing the side up. The two panels fell off the bus.
Believe GCT have hit it too
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RE: Durham Bus Stn - MurdnunoC - 19 Jan 2024
(18 Jan 2024, 8:41 pm)tyresmoke Believe GCT have hit it tooSurely not? I have it on good authority that GCT drivers are very attentive and avoid accidents at all costs. You must be thinking of another GCT.
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RE: Durham Bus Stn - nova347 - 19 Jan 2024
Its a bit off topic right but I was on the 21 the other day and we passed a 69 and the driver had a GNE coat on.