NEW MUNICIPAL BUS STATION TO PARK 500 VEHICLES.
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TO accommodate the enormous number of visiting motor coaches and motorbuses, a special committee of the Blackpool, Council has under consideration a scheme for the erection of a huge central road-vehicle station, which it is proposed shouli be sufficiently commodious to house 500 coaches and motorbuses. Although the new statian will be primarily a corporation tetsainus, whatever surplus accommodation is
available will be set aside for visiting motorbuses and coaches, which, on the very busy days, run into several hundreds. The station will . be fully equipped with loading bays, waitingrooms, etc.
It is worth noting, 1)y the way, that Blackpool has taken a pioneering part in the provision of stations for motor coaches and two are now in service.
Although private cars may be parked on the promenade, the council forbids the loading or unloading of coaches on the sea front. Vehicles must, therefore, use private premises and grounds. In contemplating the provision of a new station, the corporation apparently intends to kill two birds with one stone :—(1) Centralize the municipal motorbus termini and (2) co-ordinate the passenger road transport services generally.