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BURNLEY’S bus station is among the safest in Britain after winning a top safety award.
The eye-catching £3m. bus station received the SafeMark award – only the third such honour awarded in Lancashire.
The accolade recognises that the Croft Street facility is a place where passengers can feel safe.
A “mystery shopper” visited the bus station marked against a series of criteria, including health and safety, CCTV coverage, staff training and measures in place to tackle anti-social behaviour.
The judges looked at issues such as making sure there are no dark corners where people could lurk or the design and monitoring of toilets to tackle any illegal activities.
“It’s a bit like getting a Michelin star,” said David Woodroffe, group passenger facilities manager with bus operator Transdev Blazefield.
“It’s a big honour for the bus station and reflects all the hard work that’s gone into making it as safe as possible for everyone who uses it.”
Coun. Roger Frost, Burnley Council’s executive member responsible for the bus station, said: “I hope that achieving this honour will encourage more people, especially lone travellers, to feel they can use the bus station in safety, whatever time of the day.
“The bus station is popular and well-used and this SafeMark award will help cement its reputation. Those of us who can remember what bus stations used to be like will recognise just how far they have come.”
The bus station will be judged annually and will have to maintain its standards in order to retain the honour. Nelson and Chorley bus stations are the other sites in Lancashire to have achieved the award.
The award was welcomed by Burnley’s Community Safety Partnership which oversees work to tackle anti-social behaviour and crime across the borough.
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Sony
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 07:55 PMLeft to right: Telly Savalas. Robocop. Yul Brynner. Dixon of Dock Green. Jimmy Saville. PS bring back the information boards. PPS free entertainment please in bus station e.g. Punch and Judy, singing bus drivers, dancing inspectors & musical instrument playing cleaners.
Blackpools Finest
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 12:13 PMThis is exactly the sort of picture your town does not need, a shaven head, coco the clown, two men who have hats too big for them, come on burnley.........make an effort, you havent even named them
matz
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 09:36 AMJust a shame it was built with so little foresight. New university and proposed oval shopping centre 1 end of town, new bus station the other surrounded by streets full of empty shops. Why couldn't the university or a new shopping centre be built on the Thompson centre, to much like common sense!
Sony
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 09:08 AMWhat times the next bus to Nelson please Jimmy Saville ? Which way to the swimming baths Duncan Goodhew ? Which bus for Clitheroe ?
username1949
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 05:15 PMBurnley Bus station is great. (compared to Preston or Blackburn). In Burnley we have music while you wait, CCTV in the toilets that has a direct link to You Tube, an exterior smoking zone at both ends of the bus station, a police station a fag ends throw away, a Michelin 4 star cafe, and bus drivers that have perfected the true art-form of sweetness, courtesy and helpfulness. Yes Burnley Bus station is super duper. Highly recommended for anyone with a free bus pass. Whoops nearly forgot, there's a free BMX area just alongside it. Signed Roger Ramsbottom.
StubCrouch
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 12:13 PMHave they still got their information boards in Burnley then? (Unlike the rest of Lancashire).
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