Queen Square Bus Station

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RE: Queen Square Bus Station

(14/02/2015 01:32)FC Pictures Wrote:  Before Queen Square was built every city bus service went via the old Hood Street Gyratory,including all the South Liverpool services that now use Hanover Street,if you move the rest of the South Liverpool services to start at Liverpool One and run via that route passengers would get used to the idea, just as people have on the other routes. There is no room for extra lanes at Queen Square,the council and developers greed back in the 90s sacrificed the space that was really needed here for it to be a totally effective Bus Station, leaving us with the Sir Thomas St shambles, and the congestion caused by the two badly sighted multi storey car parks not helping congestion in the area and far too many changes of traffic lights from Lime St in and out of Queen Square.The only spare land in the Queen Square area is the taxi rank next to Williamson Square which could site a bus turning loop and stops or layover space but of course the city`s cabbies won`t give up this facility so that`s also a non starter.

The black cabs already have Stanley Street which is only about 200 yards from Williamson Square, Great Charlotte Street and North John Street so could give up Williamson Square, After all if you are expecting passengers from South Liverpool to walk for their buses taxi passengers could too.