(22 Feb 2023, 6:38 pm)deanmachine wrote Is it just me that finds turning half of a bus station into a car park completely absurd? Encouraging yet more private car use over public transport just shouldn't be a thing that should be happening in the 2020s, but that's what happens when you let private companies run public transport into the ground.

I personally don't understand the obsession with bus stations either. Are they really needed? It's a waste of space or would a few bus stops like most other towns and cities have be enough. That space should've been used, including the abandoned shopping centre pretty much, for the cinema, restaurants and bowling alley but no we'll open that at Tindale instead.

It's the exact sort of thing which would revive the centre. Instead we've got a bus station serving a Saver's, Wilko and Greggs as there's really nothing else there while everyone else is driving and jamming into the car parks at Tindale.