EARLIER this year, a reader appraised the bus station at Blackburn, prompting a similar look at Darwen bus station.
This, unlike its larger neighbour is at the centre of commercial and administrative affairs. As a result, service vehicles, of necessity, hamper movement. Be they from near or far, passengers and crews find the only local convenience.
One sees the A666 hampered by the new 90-seaters, or London Expresses etc. barred entrance by parked vehicles.
Solution? An immediate ban on parking at the entrance and removal elsewhere of the 'fag & toffee kiosk.' A mail box on this station would be a boom, cutting the numbers 'double-crossing' the A666.
In a hilly, cold, often wet town, bus shelters need to shelter. The present single-sided oddities do not! Denied even this, passengers to Pothouse and Sunnyhurst must seek shelter in the main doorway of the market, to the annoyance of traders and shoppers.
Most if us would gladly forego the council's works of art for a modicum of plain, common sense.
JOHN A STIRTON, Avondale Mews, Darwen
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