Alterations have been made to the newly erected bus shelter outside St Mary’s Church by the junction of Market Road in Plympton after a string of incidents in which buses collided with the shelter’s protruding roof structure
In January it was twice struck by a Kernow Transport bus pulling into the stop to collect students studying at a college in Cornwall. In the same month a Citybus collided with it when pulling into the stop.
Then on February 26 it was struck by the Stagecoach service 52 when it pulled in to pick up fares. On each occasion parts of the glass roof came crashing to the ground leaving broken glass all over the pavement.
Now remedial work has been carried out to try and prevent further incidents. A Plymouth City Council spokesperson said:
“We are aware of recent collisions with this new shelter.
“It is fractionally larger than the previous one and we are advised it requires slightly deeper foundations so it cannot be moved any nearer the wall.
“However we have asked the provider to reinstall the glass roof the other way around, with the larger area overhanging towards the back.”
This work appears to have now been carried out. The new Plympton bus shelter was put up as part of a change of contracts which has seen many bus shelters in Plymouth removed altogether and others replaced with ones of a different design.
Ward Councillor Patrick Nicholson (Independent) said the contract to replace bus shelters across Plymouth had been a disaster and backed calls for a full citywide review of the safety and positioning of the new shelters.
(story courtesy of the Plympton Podcast)
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