Letter: Winchester bus station closure 'dangerous'

The assertion reported is that alighting and awaiting passengers  will be moved to The Broadway and Silver Hill. The bus station is very busy with passengers at peak times in volumes that would cause dangerous congestion if relocated as described. At a time when more enlightened councils are looking to implement transport hubs the  proposal to remove a central bus station removes the one thing that makes it easy to use public transport in Winchester and replaces it with connectivity challenges, removes passenger waiting facilities like seating and information boards and introduces major challenges for disabled passengers who need seating or wheelchair space.

The only foreseeable solutions to dangerous difficult to use waiting areas on The Broadway or Silver Hill are  investment in waiting infrastructure at those locations or replacing the bus station with a multi-modal transport hub as could easily be achieved as part of the current Station  Approach development.

You don’t regenerate the city by making it harder to access. We need political leaders who want to make Winchester more attractive to residents and visitors, not lining the pockets of developers and unregulated private bus  companies.

Mike Nell,

Stockbridge Road,

Sutton Scotney

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