Are Bus Stations Desirable ?
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T" provision of bus stations for ordinary stage-carriage services was a "questionable proposition," Mr. R. P. Beddow, chairman of Southdown Motor Services, Ltd., told shareholders, last week.
"A large part of the value of such services lies in the fact that they pick up passengers and set them down along the roads close to their starting points and destinations. In a town of any size, no single bus station, however well sited, can provide conveniently for a major part of its public's requirements in this respect, and to force passengers to make their own way to a bus station which is not centrally sited is the opposite of a public service.
"The cost of bus stations has eventually to be paid for by the passengers, and unless these considerations are taken into proper account by planning authorities, there is a risk that the public will in the long run find themselves paying more for facilities which are less convenient," he added.