The video shot below was taken at Newton Abbot Bus Park which used to be a bus station where buses went in and dropped passengers off at the end of their journey and picked up new passengers to convey them to their destination. More often it is turning into a bus park where drivers leave their buses while they go for their rest breaks. Two bus companies use this bus station, Stagecoach and Country Bus, and something needs to be done soon or those of us who would like to get in and get out with the minimum of delay will find ourselves stranded in the road way outside the bus station more and more often.
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Oh look the 182 is going, we may be able to get into the bus station now!
5 comments:
Is it like that on a regular basis David, it looks pretty crazy. How often to you miss your depart time?
Brixham harbour was on the news this morning and looks beautiful. You're lucky to live in such a lovely part of the country.
Pity Harry sold off the proper bus station!
Cambridge bus station is like that too, buses backed up to road works further dow, coupled with a sharp corner and narrow roads around that area means that rush hour is an absolute nightmare. When the buses go out of service they wait in the 'proper' bus station that they have to reverse out of, which is down the road and takes some of the traffic, but that is just as bad now, building works are going on in a building behind it!
This was about as bad as it gets but it is getting worse. There was an item in the local paper a few weeks ago about how the council were going to sort the problem out, so far, nothing has happened.
My first thought on seeing that video was, there's always some idiot pedestrian running across the road in front of the bus as it pulls out.
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