**Leicester St Margaret's Bus Station on it's First Day 27th June 2022**
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Buses filmed at the new St Margaret's Bus Station at Leicester on it's opening day Monday 27th June 2022.
The building was almost completely demolished and stripped back to its partial steelwork frame that was reused in line with the high eco-standards of the project. By reusing major elements of the previous building and retaining and repairing the existing concrete on the main area for bus arrivals and departures, the ‘embodied’ carbon cost of constructing the new building has been dramatically reduced by an equivalent of over 575 tonnes.
The station has been completely redesigned with a more spacious internal layout, better seating, a new café, modern toilets - complete with a Changing Places accessible facility, and real-time digital passenger information. It also provides increased capacity for national and regional services with 24 available bus bays.
The new building creates a striking gateway into the centre of the city. It features a glazed concourse to maximise natural lighting and cut energy consumption and a curved aluminium roof where a solar farm of 390 photovoltaic panels will generate clean, green power for the building. The building has an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) with the highest possible rating of A+ and will operate as a fully net zero carbon building.
Electric bus charging points have been installed and the new building will offer secure storage for up to 100 bicycles, as well being the latest location for a docking station as part of the city’s new e-bike share scheme, Santander Cycles Leicester.
Improvements to surrounding footpaths and roads are also complete. These include new and improved facilities for cyclists and pedestrians, safer crossings, new landscaping and more tree planting. The work will help strengthen and improve links between key development sites and the city centre, including the new Savoy Street which will provide a quick, direct pedestrian route link between St Margaret’s and Haymarket bus stations.
New St Margarets! Lovely stuff 😁
Spent £millions on this new structure. I live in Ratby and the 27 Arriva service has recently been cut down to one per hour. As a 79 year old, it’s hardly a convenient and efficient service to encourage regular visits to the city centre! What amazes me is that the 127 which travels through Rothley runs every few minutes and yet there are rarely any passengers travelling on a double decker bus. Now we have a new bus station I would hope Arriva will reconsider it’s position otherwise the city centre will die on it’s feet and Fosse Park will service the serious shoppers.
You're absolutely right, it would be a shame to see Fosse Park do more damage to the City centre. It's always sad to see this happen anywhere, but it has happened too often in many cases.
It already does. I haven’t been to the city centre once in my car since passing my driving test. The only ones I’ve been to in it are Birmingham and Manchester where there aren’t so many shops shut.
The problem with Leicester is that it’s not just Fosse Park, that one’s just the obvious one because of all the redevelopments, but there’s also Beaumont Leys and Thurmaston that provide a lot of what you want with easier parking (and from where I live, Elliot’s Field in Rugby is a popular alternative), and of course, you’ve got a good selection of large town centres around the county, Loughborough, Hinckley, Melton Mowbray, Market Harborough, and Coalville, and then just outside the city, you’ve got Syston and Wigston.
Looks a lot better than old st Maggies
Good 💗👌
Very good capturing the bus station’s first day. Do First not enter it though?
No, this one’s more for longer services.
@@leicestertravels4705 Thank you.
Does Jerry Collins still run the cafe?
This thing cost 14 odd million!!!! Just what was that spent on???? Looks like hardly any seating inside for passengers waiting, and the exposed brick walls inside make it look like your in side a cheap garage, it looks awful inside, and why so much open space inside more seating would have made sence not just 8 seats to a bay. And the same drab floor along with the drab exposed brick Ohh it looks awful, could and should have been so much better, I don't know why they bothered, what a wast of money on something that looks awful inside.
Enough already