Bus garage site is real – once access is sorted
Saturday 12th November 2011, 2:29PM GMT.
LAND at La Pitronnerie could be used for a bus garage – if negotiations over the ownership of a private road are successful, the deputy Treasury and Resources minister has said.
Deputy Jack Honeybill (pictured) responded yesterday to Environment’s claims that a States-owned site there could be earmarked for a bus depot.
The department has long argued that the lack of such a site had stopped it going out to tender for a new operator.
But, so far, it has been unable to find land that could meet its needs, with Treasury and Resources minister Charles Parkinson saying a suitable site did not currently exist.
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I wonder which Deputy owns the private road?
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That’s going to be a very expensive private road
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I wonder which States Member owns that road?
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HOw the hell do you “Lose” or “Discover” land that could pass as a site to house a Bus Terminal? Just goes to show how much the States care about providing a normal service for the people of this Island. I’d say they really don’t at all as they are leaving Pensioners,Students, the Vulnerable and those that can’t afford Porsches stranded and out in the cold.
Perhaps the states will see it clear this time to order Buses that ACTUALLY fit on the roads on Guernsey? Here’s a novel idea…..order the Mini Bus type of Public Transport but run them TWICE as often to deal with the Bus travel capacity? Perhaps Bus drivers will then ACTUALLY do a real days work? I don’t call sitting on your backside for 5 hours a day in the warm,drinking tea and having a smoke break every 10 minutes (as that’s the furthest away you are from anywhere on Guernsey) a REAL day’s graft. After all it’s not like they have to work after 8pm is it? Or even drive the Night bus back from late closing Pubs and Clubs as they do in the UK?
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