(27 Jan 2022, 11:48 pm)Rapidsnap wrote Annoyingly when they built Killingworth bus station, I feel that they put the bus station in the wrong location and should have been placed closer to the entrace to the morrisons along by where Greggs and Ladbrokes are, least it make it more safer for passengers considering the Ladbrokes and Betfred that are there are open to 10pm every night, so if someone felt threatened they could always take refuge next to or in the shop.

It's a interesting point this but there's a reason why it's at the other end and that's to help the shopping centre. The bus station is a flow of passengers for Killingworth so having a car park at one end and the bus station at the opposite end helps creates flows and ultimately improves the shopping centre. If you had everything at the Morrisons end the rest of shopping centre is effectively a dead end so unless you can get shops to flow people down there your in big trouble.

Most places are the same like Eldon Square had it in mind when it was built with the main in street in one corner, the bus station underneath in the centre, a car park at one end (Greenmarket) and another car park at the other corner (John Lewis) with the Metro access at the final corner.

or Washington Galleries where the 2 car parks and the bus station are all opposite corners or Jarrow where the bus station and Metro station is at the other end to the car park.

It might seem an inconvenience to bus users but the supermarket is always going to be want to be near the car park rather than the bus station.

If you don't do that you end up with a Eldon Garden or the old shopping centre in Durham (forgot it's name) where the main anchor pulls out and the place dies a slow death.