A NEW bus stop at Warrington has been erected the wrong way round and on such a narrow footpath that even a baby buggy can’t get passed.
The “botched job” in Harpers Road, Longbarn, has angered local councillor Billy Lines-Rowlands.
He said: “The council’s work on this bus stop has stopped both passengers and passers-by in their tracks.
“The shelter has not only been erected facing the wrong way but also at the narrowest part of pavement, so that a baby buggy can’t get through.
“I was alerted to this when a mum with a double buggy contacted me saying she had to cross the road before the pedestrian crossing as she could not fit the buggy through.
“At any point from planning to installation this could have been avoided.
“It’s no wonder that residents in Longbarn often claim it to be the forgotten area of Poulton North.
“The council don’t even put any effort in when installing new bus stops – everywhere else they got it right.
“This botched job is simply not good enough and I have requested that it be resolved as soon as possible.”
Picture: Cllr Lines-Rowlands at the bus stop.
Bus stop a botched job – councillor
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Double buggies should be banned as they are a hazard to pedestrians.
Cllr Lines-Rowlands looks like he has fallen out of Burtons window.
I am disappointed that he is not pointing at the bus shelter as you normally get in these kind of photos!
All we have to wait for now is the usual official council announcement telling us that so many people were involved in creating this fiasco, that no one person can be held to blame. Oh and of course lessons have been learned.
Can’t see what the problem is, there’s nothing wrong with the way the shelter is put in, there is plenty of room for people to get past.
Just goes to show that the workforce that carry out these tasks have no initialtive of their own and just follwo some basic directions.
I feel the same about the “landscaping” that has gone on behind the houses in the passageways on the estate where I live. I presume because some people complained about the overhanging bushes on these passageways in places the council decided to eradicate huge swathes of greenerey on an ad hoc basis and spray tyhe pace with defoliant and growth restricting chemicals which seeped into gardens and left hacked ugly hedgerows, areas which are well away from paths and had slow growing shrubs which flowered have been denuded and are now a mess of shredded twiggs, twisted stumps etc.. Cost effective and will probably mean that they will not have to trim some areas for a year or two..pleasing on the eye..No! Considered ..??
“The forgotten area of Poulton North”. Forgotten by whom – surely he doesn’t mean by the two other Labour councillors on the Ward – does he?
Longarn estate a forgotten area, it is certainly and indeed yes. Especially when it does not have real active political representation. It has been hacked out of Poulton North and Poulton South, and is an easy vote pot for prospective Labour Councillors. None of you do any real work in Longbarn and you know it!. The essential commmunity work is done by Longbarn residents and you know this to be so – yet you pose as activists and achievers. You have done nothing.- but you do change your clothes between publicity photos. Peter E.