| Three Silly Bridges - East Croydon, Pilning, Patney and Chirton Posted by grahame at 16:58, 19th November 2024 |      |
https://insidecroydon.com/2024/11/19/network-rail-cant-afford-staff-for-bridge-to-nowhere-ticketing/
Network Rail can’t afford staff for Bridge to Nowhere ticketing
Network Rail wants to press ahead with opening the bridge at the eastern, Addiscombe side of the tracks – but just without providing access to the station’s platforms for ticketed passengers.
Network Rail last month submitted a planning application to Croydon Council, but has done little, if anything, to publicise their hare-brained scheme to the thousands of passengers who use the station every day, or to the residents in Addiscombe who have been waiting for more than a decade to be able to access the station and stroll across the bridge to the town centre from Cherry Orchard Road.
They appear to achieved their objective. By the weekend, the planning application had attracted fewer than half-a-dozen public comments – though all of those object to Network Rail’s half-arsed solution to this development conundrum.
Network Rail wants to press ahead with opening the bridge at the eastern, Addiscombe side of the tracks – but just without providing access to the station’s platforms for ticketed passengers.
Network Rail last month submitted a planning application to Croydon Council, but has done little, if anything, to publicise their hare-brained scheme to the thousands of passengers who use the station every day, or to the residents in Addiscombe who have been waiting for more than a decade to be able to access the station and stroll across the bridge to the town centre from Cherry Orchard Road.
They appear to achieved their objective. By the weekend, the planning application had attracted fewer than half-a-dozen public comments – though all of those object to Network Rail’s half-arsed solution to this development conundrum.
I suppose they don't want a Sheffield (open access) solution. Or a Pilning solution of no bridge at all. Or a Patney and Chirton - station closed but "The footbridge, which is about 40 yards long, is retained as it serves a public footpath" - picture at Cornwall Railway Society
| Re: Three Silly Bridges - East Croydon, Pilning, Patney and Chirton Posted by ChrisB at 17:02, 19th November 2024 | |
That bridge is already in use at the western end, with ticket barriers, and access to all platforms. Very useful for that end of town & the Premier Inn just across the way. So open up the eastern end & it will cause all manner of problems, for the ticketless.
