ePetition - Provide a Bus shelter in Grand Avenue Hove
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Provide a Bus shelter in Grand Avenue Hove
I, like many other local residents am a pensioner and particularly rely on the 700 bus service to get in to town as it is a shorter walk than getting to the Church Road bus stops. However, this is an exposed spot with high winds and rain frequently blowing off the sea. I would, therefore, like the Council to provide a shelter and information board to enable me, and others, to continue getting this service.
A combined paper and e-petition will be presented to the Council meeting on the 23 October 2014.
This ePetition ran from 02/09/2014 to 22/10/2014 and has now finished.
8 people signed this ePetition.
Council response
“I am pleased to confirm that, following previous representations, the request for a shelter at the bus stop on the west side of Grand Avenue has already been added to the council’s list of shelter requests. Whenever additional shelters become available officers prioritise this list, taking account of the location. Officers look at a number of factors, including how busy the bus stop is in terms of people boarding buses there; whether the location is exposed and how far it is to an alternative bus stop with a shelter.
The council is in the process of retendering the contract for bus shelter provision and we hope that new shelters will become available during the next twelve months, with the start of the new contract. At that stage officers will certainly consider the bus stop on the west side of Grand Avenue as a potential site for a shelter, along with other stops in the city where shelters have been requested.
Unfortunately we do not currently have funds for the provision of new real time bus information signs as these are generally funded by new developments around the City.
However I am sure that Stagecoach will provide timetable
information similar to that supplied for the other shelter on Grand
Avenue”.