Use the bus station as a true interchange
CAN I ask why we have the cleanest, smartest, easiest to use bus station in the north of England yet it's nearly always deserted?
It even sits adjacent to the National Express interchange and next to the newly modernised rail station from which you would wish to commute to your bus home.
However, the bus management have buses and passengers congregating for driver swaps and time checks in Fitzalan Square, Corporation Street, Arundel Gate, Flat Street etc, which causes overcrowding on city centre pavements and road crossing chaos.
A bus station should be as the name says, an interchange for convenience of public transport passengers not a walk thorough corridor to some random city centre bus queueing site.
Have these bus mangers studied poor pensioners dragging their holiday cases all way round the city centre up the hill from Pond Street after returning to Sheffield by coach or train? What about students new to the city, whose natural thought is to commute to outer areas of Sheffield via the buses to be found in the bus station?
Let's get this bus station used – it's got cafes, newsagents, toilets, telephones, cash machines, passenger advice screens and a customer services help desk.
Mrs J Wigfield, Potter Hill, High Green
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