Its just a shame half of all bus users in wolverhampton can’t use it instead we have to get off somewhere else and more than likely in inclement weather conditions,still does looks nice .

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yet half the bus services dont use the nice shiny new station, what a waste of money AGAIN

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Waste of money! they make the bus depo nice, but only with half the stops put in the depo? terrible!they need to do something about the rest of the stops people wont feel safe at all going out to catch a bus that far of a night.
for example, 9pm some people will come back from work and they have to walk out of the safe depo to their stop outside of the depo in the dark streets of wolverhampton with dealers and drunks!

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I know a lot of the city’s problems are due to the council – bad planning & management, poor investment decisions etc – but I think the development of the bus station was down to Centro with bus services planned & provided by Network WM.

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Aesthetically, it’s a great improvement on its predecessor, but in practical terms it seems pretty poor.

I popped in as I passed it today. There’s virtually no seating in the whole building! Just a couple of seats per bus stand – really appalling.

And then, of course, there’s the fact that 1/3 the city’s buses won’t even call at the station. I just don’t understand it; it totally defeats the point of having a bus station, a point at which all routes intersect to make changing services easier. I saw quite a few people at the station this morning getting seriously angry with the Centro staff over it, and I don’t blame them.

From now on I’ll have to traipse halfway across the city centre every morning from my bus stop to the railway station. It’s a joke.

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I have a really good idea, why dont we as Wolverhampton council spend 22 million on a shiny new bus station with a GLASS bridge that
a) we dont need
b) a lot of the people using it probably dont pay income tax anyway

then we could build 2 really ugly block of state of the art flats for the new students to come to Wolverhampton

Then what we will do is make loads of people redundant.

I think the council employ really clever people at the top jobs.

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I agree with the comments above, waiting all this time for shiny new bus station, only to find my bus dosnt even go there.

I will be logging a complaint with centro, the more people who complain, the more likly they are to reconsider there poor decision of not having 1/3 of the buses actually go there.

p.s why does the number 1 service need to go from tettenhall wood, all the way to dudley??? makes no sense.

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It’s a shame that so many people who have bothered to comment are the type of people who are willing to say completely ridiculous things without bothering to find out any facts.

The new bus station not only looks great, but also provides much needed extra space for the growing numbers of commuters who will use it on a daily basis. The new bus station is so bright and spacious that it doesn’t strike me as the sort of place ‘chavs will rule’. Although with the pride that most of the people commenting here have for Wolverhampton then why should it matter if the place is ruined?

The new dedicated foot bridge was definitely needed. Previously, during rush hour or match days the old bridge did not allow for the sheer volume of pedestrian traffic; trying to walk against the flow of people was nothing short of dangerous. When the next phases of Wolverhampton Interchange are complete, the tram will do a loop of the city centre and finish at the train station. There won’t be any room for pedestrians on the old bridge.

Surely there is no surprise that developers keep pulling out of Wolverhampton if the above is a snapshot of how people react to positive change for our city. Don’t forget that for Birmingham to be regenerated, it was (and still is) a building site – these things don’t happen over night.

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