Bus shelter success for Stratford Road

Success at last - a bus shelter will happen - for some time I have been pushing for a bus shelter outside Tesco on the Stratford Park Road - see various blogs in past like 28th May, 11th January and last year 19th September.

Photos: people waiting in rain outside Tesco

I have been surprised that this little campaign has produced so much correspondence with various people including the County Highways folk, bus shelter people, Town Council, manager at Tesco and even several to the company planning the Tesco refurbishment plus of course local residents.

Yes I know the shelter is not in my ward and it is more a County Council matter but I started writing to Tesco as it seemed an obvious benefit to all, an anonymous comment was also left on this blog after I was elected and since then two residents from Whiteshill have lobbied me. Tesco have no responsibility to build a shelter - that should be the County but they claim no money - to my mind 90% of people using that stop are using it to go to the store and therefore it would be good for Tesco to help their customers.

As you will see I took photos to show the need - the manager at Tesco when I did get to speak to him was enormously helpful and I am sure has done lots to make this happen. My view is that it was a mistake not to have insisted on this as part of the agreement of building the store in the first place - it is ridiculous not to have made it a condition of building the store.

Anyhow Stroud Town Council have also written various letters to Tesco and on Monday night agreed to adopt the maintenance of the shelter if Tesco built it - so at last it can all go-ahead.