(22 Jan 2015, 9:30 am)MrPottski wrote You're right, since the greedy council sold off all the best areas. That new Feethams development could have been quite easily located on the opposite side of the road, or on the site of the old car dealership, both of which are being used for car parks at present. Then, build a bus station where it used to be, with a car park on the top, like the old Sunderland CBS. The problem you have is, Darlington council haven't got a clue when it comes to anything bus related, and those in charge of Arriva in Darlington aren't much better. Someone will end up dead in that town before long, and it will be them to blame.
Yeah there is no where to put a bus station anymore since everywhere has been sold, Feethams would have been ideal but instead they decided to put that new development on the site including another car park so now there is nowhere to put one. Something has to be done soon as it will end up with blood splattered because they will be ran down by something they couldn't see, get confused about the road layout and think it is okay to cross the road when it isn't or even just more basic things such as arsehole taxi drivers driving like a man on a mission, you may remember my post in the annoying thread about me nearly being ran down by a taxi outside the taxi rank outside the indoor market because the driver came from Prebend Row to Tubwell Row then turned right without indicating (which I don't think any taxi driver in Darlington actually does) so because he didn't indicate I assumed that he was carrying on down Tubwell Row so I crossed outside the indoor market then had a red taxi come round right in front of me with a driver giving me looks that could turn people to stone (I don't know why he was giving me hacky looks it was his bleeding fault if he knew to use his bloody indicator's I wouldn't have steeped out - ****).
Going a bit off topic here but Darlington Borough Council have made all the wrong decisions about everything in Darlington Town Centre - pedestrian parts of the town to make the town safer (and made other parts really unsafe), moving the market to a number of stalls around the indoor market, also every bloody school holidays there is some crappy rides in the market place which looks tacky as owt, closing the toilets outside the indoor market so now you have to go to the Dolphin Centre which only has a limited number of toilets. The car parks are more like a game of dogems and if your driving anything bigger than a Smart car you are going to damage the car in some capacity or run over pedestrians.
Something needs to be done as I think these changes next month will make things worse, I think all buses should only stop at one stop in the town centre so the buses are more spread out, problems with this is people will bitch and moan that their bus doesn't stop where they want to be and will stop using the buses (or claim to and continue moaning). This will never happen as though.
Also with the Do the Localmotion thing how come you can afford to give money to Arriva for fitting them next stop announcements on the Pulsars and setting up that park and ride from the college on Saturdays which practically nobody used apparently (I went past once and I saw three cars in the car park, which may have belonged to people who work at the college working on Saturday) how can they afford to do junk like this after rural parts of Darlington lost their bus services in 2013 with parts still without a bus service and other parts likely to lose them again soon due to the services not being commercially viable. Joke.
This rant went on for so long that Tapatalk couldn't handle how much I've typed about my frustration with the council and their idiotic decisions.