Station revamp given a lift
Saturday 21st February 2009, 8:59AM GMT.
A £738,000 refurbishment programme at Shrewsbury Railway Station will start with work to reinstate the lift to one of the platforms.
Work will be carried out to fit a new lift into the old lift shaft to platform three, which will allow disabled passengers to access the platform easily.
The old lift was removed 10 years ago and the shaft sealed off. But bosses at Arriva Trains Wales, which operates the station, now plan to reopen the shaft within months thanks to funding from the Department of Transport’s Access For All fund, which must be used by March.
The project has also received funding from Shropshire County Council and the Welsh Assembly.
Before the planned work can start, the planning department of Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council must give planning permission, as the station is a Grade II listed building.
Arriva hopes to hear the outcome of its application within the next six weeks.
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Why? I mean, I can understand why, for disabled people etc., but why that? How about removing some of the disabled parking spaces so that able bodied parkers can also park up whilst having to wait for the people they came to pick up? Is it perhaps something to do with the ‘planners’ hating cars? Car drivers? How do the planners get around? On the train, to the doorstep? I think not.
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