New Teesside Park Bus / Rail station

Looks like we got one of them suckers...

Hiding?

I'm here, every day! I'm in the town hall 2 days a week, my number is public for all residents of Berwick Hills and Pallister, as is my email, WhatsApp and even door number. Residents regularly contact me on social media, indeed I get messages daily.
 
TheLodger said:
Looks like we got one of them suckers...

Hiding?

I'm here, every day! I'm in the town hall 2 days a week, my number is public for all residents of Berwick Hills and Pallister, as is my email, WhatsApp and even door number. Residents regularly contact me on social media, indeed I get messages daily.
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You can play up to your mates on here all you like.
Those of us who live here have seen neither sight nor sound of you.
Donna is often out and about.
 
fmttmadmin said:
The shopping centre came before the junction remember - they had to build a new junction and change the road system.
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The new junction was built for the shopping centre but my main point is that the general location being so close to the main road routes east west north and south make it very attractive. Through work I know people right out in deepest darkest north west Durham who would not go to Stockton or Middlesbrough but regularly go to Teesside Park.
 
Forget train stations - Teesside needs a tram system which connects all the stations and shopping centres in integrated transport hubs.
Trains for urban areas like Teesside, are expensive to build, were designed over 150 years ago, and just aren't fit for purpose. They are not a practical , accessible, modern, clean reliable, effective means of mass rapid transit in urban areas.
 
sadgit said:
Teesside Park is soulless and always has been and always will be. It is just like Dalton Park. Zero independent shops and a nightmare to get in and out of. I avoid it at all costs. Shame as this town, is becoming like a ghost town.
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Tons of soul in boro town centre 😂 well, tons of souls asking you for 50p.

It's not the sort of place you go to find a small independent shop, it's a retail/leasure park. You go there to buy stuff you need or want if you don't want to buy it online or need it sooner than online delivers. You're not going to find a quaint record shop there or a pop up florist but I doubt anyone going there expects that.

Not sure how it's a nightmare to get into? You drive in, park, shop and leave, the newish car park layout for the road is a bit weird but it's a far cry from a nightmare.

It's busy at Christmas but only then at certain times.
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
Tons of soul in boro town centre 😂 well, tons of souls asking you for 50p.

It's not the sort of place you go to find a small independent shop, it's a retail/leasure park. You go there to buy stuff you need or want if you don't want to buy it online or need it sooner than online delivers. You're not going to find a quaint record shop there or a pop up florist but I doubt anyone going there expects that.

Not sure how it's a nightmare to get into? You drive in, park, shop and leave, the newish car park layout for the road is a bit weird but it's a far cry from a nightmare.

It's busy at Christmas but only then at certain times.
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Ok
 
Lightweight said:
Surely bus only need stops and not stations also?
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Bus stations have a capacity of people, facilities and waiting area for crew changeovers, shelter, security etc.

If you had just stops, for buses coming from and going to different locations, you would end up with a lot of people congregating in one place, which is fine on a summers day but less fine on a winter day when it's throwing it down. Without facilities you'll end up with people relieving themselves in bushes.

Teesside park gets away with various bus stops now because hardly anyone uses the bus to get to/from there, it's mostly car.

If there was proper transport links that may change and it would benefit from a proper station, it needn't be a huge station, but that would also allow a shuttle service to run from the station to 2-3 stops in the park.

It would also mean on the few days of the year the park is gridlocked, people could still get there and just walk over, and less cars = hopefully less congestion to gridlock it.

Bus stops could do it at a pinch to be honest but it would be far from ideal if it's to be well used.

I guess the main challenge to rail element is that the tees barrage is surely only a couple hundred meters from thornabt station itself? Just used google maps to measure and it's about 1.26km of train track, feels fairly close.
 
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