I’ve just got back from ‘BHX’ for a little jaunt of plane and train spotting, and keep on getting reminded about this new development plan for the area around Coventry Station, which is sorely lacking in the proper integrated transport facilities it needs.
So, here’s a draft letter to the usual local sources on the subject:
Dear Sir,
It is interesting to note that the Friar Gate Developers are using the German ICE train in their promotional and advertising materials, yet there seems to be no mention in the draft outline scheme of a plan to create a proper German style multimodal ‘Hauptbahnhof’ (Central bus and rail station).
Surely, bus passengers have had enough of putting up with Pool Meadow, which is dingy, ugly and badly designed. Moreover, it is on totally on the wrong side of the city for passengers wanting a simple unification between bus and train.
Somehow, I guess that if Ryanair ever started running buses, even they wouldn’t stoop so low as to use Pool Meadow, yet pig headed attitudes from politicians and bus company bosses who are far too stuck in their ways means that there is no real inertia to create the common sense scheme which any right minded Coventry Citizen or visitor must feel is sensible and prudent.
I trust that I am not alone in thinking that it is time to pick up the bus station and run it over to Friar Gate, where it belongs?
