This Blog has made several comments on the computer-controlled console in the bus shelter on Cary Lane, which is supposed to be there to offer on-screen information to travellers, but which has not worked for a long, long time.
Well, now it has disappeared altogether - a bit like Doctor Who's Tardis.
Some months ago the screen carried a message suggesting someone ought to plug in the keyboard. Then hopes of a permanent fix rose when we saw a Microsoft screensaver appear.
However, the console has now been removed altogether. Hopefully it's just been taken away for repairs and will re-appear in tip-top order, in the not too distant future.
At least there is currently an old-fashioned printed timetable fixed to a lamp-post at the bus stop, although it is showing signs of vandalism.
And perhaps that's central to the difficulties in and around the bus station.
Last night I returned late from Scunthorpe to Brigg, on the Hornsby No 4 service, arriving in town about 9pm. Yet the after-dark drop-off and pick-up point remains Wrawby Road, near the White Horse.
This has been the case for a long time, as drivers became fearful of rowdy youths in Cary Lane and the possibility of damage to people and buses.
That's very sad. Especially as the town's police station is only a stone's throw away (sorry, perhaps not the best choice of phrase!).
Will this situation remain for ever more, meaning the trouble-makers have won?
For what we have here is a little no-go area after dark for buses and their passengers. Not something which puts the town in a good light!
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