OPPOSITION TO BUS STATION SITE
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THE scheme for the provision of a central bus station. in Forster Square, Bradford, which would involve the removal of the Forster Statue and the flower beds which surround it, is being reconsidered by the responsible
committee of the corporation. This scheme, which aims at establishing a Station for a part of the trolleybus and motorbus services of the corporation, has, on wsthetic and traffic grounds, met with some opposition.
An alternative suggestion is the erection of a larger station, by the corporation, on vacant land off Broadway, a fine new street which has been cut through the centre of the city after the demolition of much old property owned by the naunicipality.
After the committee, dealing with the matter, bad met last week, Alderman j. W. Langley, the chairman, said that, although the price of an available site in Broadway was £80,000, the possibility of providing a station there had not been ruled out.
Pending settlement of the main issue as to where the projected new station shall be, the committee recommended the making of sufficient alterations in Forster Square to provide turning room for troIleybuses which are to replace the trams on the Bingley and Crossflatts route.
YORK SOLVES ITS BUS-STATION SITE DIFFICULTY.
EFFORTS to overcome the difficulty with regard to the provision of a bus station, outside the portico at York railway station, have resulted in a provisional arrangement between the L.N.E. Railway Co. and a sub-committee of York Corporation, which York City Council is being asked to approve this week. The arrangement provides for the construction of the bus station on land which, although forming part of the roadway outside the station, is the railway company's property. Under the scheme, this land will be conveyed to York Corporation, subject -to the corporation paying £2,500 to the railway company, maintaining at the city's cost the surface of the roadway in front of the parcels office and the Tea Room Square, and making an opening in the wall of the portico to provide access for pedestrians from the station to the bus station. it is also provided that the plans for the bus station are to be approved by the railway company. TRAFFIC .INDICATORS SUGGESTED IN LEEDS ASUGGESTION that trams and buses should be equipped with " stop " lights as well as red rear lights and traffic indicators, to bring them into line. with other vehicles, was put forward by Mr, Bertram Waring, of the Royal Automobile Club, at a meeting of the Leeds " Safety First " Council, last week. Drivers of publicservice vehicles, he commented, had sufficient to do without extending their arms to give signals.
Mr. H. H. Lancaster, chief traffic officer of Leeds transport department, said it was not as easy as might he imagined to equip trams in the way suggested. After all the expense had been incurred, he could foresee that the trouble would be to induce motorists to take notice of the signals. Conductors of public-service vehicles gave signals by hand, but other road users honoured them more in the breach than in the observance.
The council adopted a resolution recommending that all pedestrian crossings and road-warning signs should be fitted with " cat's-eye " reflector studs, and that pedestrian crossings should be illuminated. The resolution has been forwarded to Leeds Highways Committee, the deliberations of which, in view of the suggestions, will be of interest.