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Congratulations, Castleford

West Yorkshire shows how to put people at the heart of bus station design

John Dales
02 September 2016
Before: a sight, and experience, calculated to bring on an attack of the glums
Before: a sight, and experience, calculated to bring on an attack of the glums
…and some genuine humans at hand to help. Will it ever catch on?
…and some genuine humans at hand to help. Will it ever catch on?
After: spacious; indoors yet airy; comfortable; actual seats; clear information…
After: spacious; indoors yet airy; comfortable; actual seats; clear information…

 

A couple of episodes back, I wrote about various elements of the ‘Connecting Leicester’ programme which, together, had won the Urban Transport Design Award for 2016. What I chose not to mention at that time was that, this year, there were in fact joint winners of the award. The second winning scheme (and, yes, it’s a single scheme, not a package of them) is Castleford’s new bus station, built by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) in partnership with Wakefield...

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John Dales

John Dales

John Dales MSC BSC MCIHT CMILT Director, Urban Mov

John Dales is a streets design adviser to local authorities around the UK, a member of several design review panels, and one of the London mayor’s design advocates. He is a past chair of the Transport Planning Society, a former trustee of Living Streets, and a committee member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety. He is director of transport planning and street design consultancy Urban Movement. 

 

j.dales@urbanmovement.co.uk
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