This is an early stage in a fairly major construction project so where do I start? I think it’s the bus station. It’s going to be pulled down. I don’t know what’s going to be built in it’s place, I just hope it includes a space where the public can take advantage of the of the waterfront.
Gosport won’t have a main bus station. It’ll have a stop or a halt I guess. it’s going to be where the taxi rank and stop off area is. Now, there are a couple of things about this part of the plan that I don’t like;
- The loss of the parking slots for the ferry. I’ve not seen anything to say that their equivalents will be built elsewhere. That doesn’t mean they won’t be, just that I’m not aware of it.
- The busses will pull in to the new halt, and then revers out onto the road into the flowing traffic – I’d say that’s a bit hazardous, but I don’t know what measures they are going to put in place.
Now the building site in the picture is happening at the point roughly halfway down the high street at at the north and south cross streets, and will go across the pedestrian precinct that is the high street. Why is that?
It’s because they are going to turn that area into a road to take the traffics away from the ferry end of the high street so presumably only access will be permitted. For a while this area of town is going to look very different.
I shall keep track of this, and perhaps give a weekly report.
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