Mr Blue Sky wrote:Who cares if there's no bus station?
Why will it matter that, when a new bus station is eventually built, no one will be able to catch buses to anywhere in Cardiff, or arrive at Cardiff Central on a bus from destinations within Cardiff?
Should we moan if we can't drop passengers off or pick them up from Cardiff Central, except if we take a very circuitous detour to the rear of the station? The south side, that is, which is the "wrong" side for 80% of Cardiff residents.
If people want seamless travel, with luggage, using public transport from their new homes in Plas Dŵr or Churchlands, what right do they have to be upset about the fact that they will be dropped off several hundred metres from Cardiff Central or the bus station?
And those fools who want to catch a taxi to their hotel to the north of the station, why do they think that they can moan about not being able to do that any more?
I mean, having a bus station where you can catch a bus or a train station where you can easily access taxis or pick up/drop off passengers is such a bloody stupid idea.
Cardiff council - now Labour-run - shouldn't have to deal with these morons. Even though seamless public transport journeys are a central rationale for them wanting to build 20000 homes on green fields - otherwise the roads will be choked by cars -who needs bus stations or transport interchanges anyway?
Good to see so many brainiacs on CWM forum slavishly following their intellectual leader, Cllr Ramesh Patel. Anyone who's met him will recognise his razor-sharp thinking all over this new masterplan.
The guy is an absolute genius. The whole station area should be renamed Pateltown in his honour.
Peiriannydd, if you were to read the thread from page 20 you would see that I posted the above on 28th April 2015. After posting this I was subjected to derision, ridicule and bullying from many posters on this board. The only people who were supportive in any way were Zach and Simon_200.
I'd seen documents (I still have copies) that implied that a certain Labour minister and a certain developer were closer than they should have been. I never published them on my blog as I knew that I'd be in danger if I did. Within a month my blog was professionally hacked and destroyed anyway.
There is a very murky underside to all of this. I'm a member of Plaid but a certain notorious politician in my party who opposes various stuff is part of a different faction who wanted to profit from alternative schemes. There are no white knights in this sorry saga. The whole thing is a mess of corruption, envy, greed, Politics and politics.
So much for the transport interchange.