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Post by 1071 on Jan 17, 2016 12:27:46 GMT 1
I have heard rumours today about the bus station being rebuilt across from the train station
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Post by 77syk7 on Jan 17, 2016 12:35:58 GMT 1
There are proposals for a new train / bus interchange at Halifax Rail Station - 5 bus stands, scheduled for opening in 2018. However, I do not think this is intended as a replacement for the current bus station, but built to offer improved transport links with the enhanced rail services due to commence in 2 years. Further details can be found in the Halifax Courier.
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Jan 17, 2016 13:41:55 GMT 1
probably two items of n
rumour have merged.
I think the current bus station will be rebuilt sometime with a modern reverse out type.
Some bus services will be diverted via a new bus/rail interchange to be built just outside the railway station.
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Post by whereami on Jan 17, 2016 15:12:46 GMT 1
probably two items of n rumour have merged. I think the current bus station will be rebuilt sometime with a modern reverse out type. Some bus services will be diverted via a new bus/rail interchange to be built just outside the railway station. If I was in charge of Metro, I'd keep it as drive in, drive out, it's a lot safer. You wouldn't get any inpatient drivers, driving behind as you reverse off stand, like what happens at most of the other, drive in, reverse out bus stations. I'm not naming any particular companies, as being the worse at it, we've all probably seen it happen at one time or another, whether a driver, passenger or partaking in our hobby |
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Post by Arriva Wakefield on Jan 17, 2016 16:00:09 GMT 1
probably two items of n rumour have merged. I think the current bus station will be rebuilt sometime with a modern reverse out type. Some bus services will be diverted via a new bus/rail interchange to be built just outside the railway station. If I was in charge of Metro, I'd keep it as drive in, drive out, it's a lot safer. You wouldn't get any inpatient drivers, driving behind as you reverse off stand, like what happens at most of the other, drive in, reverse out bus stations. I'm not naming any particular companies, as being the worse at it, we've all probably seen it happen at one time or another, whether a driver, passenger or partaking in our hobby i don't know why some locations, such as Barnsley and Huddersfield seem to have a higher than average amount of incidents, when they have a lower speed limit, when Hull seems to have a smaller reversing area, and a higher speed and yet I've never heard of a reversing incident there. Best one I can recall was a BP driver reversing off stand 11 in Leeds on a 90, and hitting the Arriva bus coming off stand 6 on a 443 |
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Jan 17, 2016 16:23:47 GMT 1
from a passenger point of view it is perceived safer to have 1 central platform rather than having to cross between.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2016 17:35:46 GMT 1
It was in the Halifax Courier this week: Plans revealed for Halifax bus rail interchangeIt sounds like we'll end up with potentially two bus stations - it will be interesting to see which services choose to go from which place and how many tour round to both before leaving the town centre. Just as interesting will be the road changes needed to help this happen smoothly. I'm also expecting it'll be the end for some, if not all, of the 'Eureka' car park. |
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Post by tyresmoke on Jan 17, 2016 20:07:49 GMT 1
It's about time we learnt in the UK how to integrate bus and rail together. This is a good step forwards.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2016 0:41:22 GMT 1
It was in the Halifax Courier this week: Plans revealed for Halifax bus rail interchangeIt sounds like we'll end up with potentially two bus stations - it will be interesting to see which services choose to go from which place and how many tour round to both before leaving the town centre. Just as interesting will be the road changes needed to help this happen smoothly. I'm also expecting it'll be the end for some, if not all, of the 'Eureka' car park. Sounds similar to the set up in Bolton,leaving the main (but older) Bus Stn before some of them then go to serve the newer but smaller Interchange |
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Post by dwarfer1979 on Jan 18, 2016 10:03:16 GMT 1
It's about time we learnt in the UK how to integrate bus and rail together. This is a good step forwards. The problem is the majority of bus passengers aren't interested in getting to the station and if it adds time or takes them away from where they want to get to it is one of those things that they can get quite vociferous about. I have experienced this where a new route replacing a number of council contracts was routed via the rail station and about the only complaints we ever received about it was that the passengers wanted to get to the hospital & market which were on the road the bus would have come in on if it hadn't diverted via the station. The problem with many UK rail stations, and Halifax is a good example of this, is that they aren't close enough to the important parts of the town centre to act as a combined destination but not far enough out of the town centre to become a separate stand-alone destination in their own right. No one is really sure what, if any, the unrealised demand actually is for bus to rail that could be accessed if better connected (we know it is there but it needs to be much more substantial than experience appears to indicate) but people know that the current passenger demand is strong for their current routes which will be damaged/lost if that is made more unattractive. |
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Post by ratty on Jan 18, 2016 10:25:39 GMT 1
Sounds an interesting little scheme, nearly as interesting as the tram scheme mooted several years ago. Can't help thinking though that the good folks of Halifax, (apart from in tram days when Old Station was a destination),have got used to the fair distance between the railway station and the bus station, and in these health conscious days quite a few of those commuters have got used to their daily bit of exercise.
Thinking about it the services that would probably lend themselves to passing through this interchange relatively comfortably would seem to be the Elland, Huddersfield, Brighouse i.e. A629 bound,services. Of course apart from Elland these are already served by Rail from Halifax.
Thinking about it even more, haven't we had an Interchange in West Yorkshire already and look what happened to that!!
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Post by westyorkshirebus on Jan 18, 2016 19:30:57 GMT 1
I agree that serving the rail station isn't all that. I'd guess that the majority of passengers want the shops and offices, not the station.
Look at Bradford where a large number of city services don't serve the Interchange, but serve Market Street instead.
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