Worst Bus Station in the World Ever?
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Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
I have somewhere much worse.
It has graffiti everywhere, uneven pavements, piped music 24 hours a day that denies you the chance of a nap at any time while waiting for a coach, the toilets are filthy and have ultra violet lights to stop drug users from injecting in them and, a few years ago, a woman was stabbed to death there.
Ladies and Gentlemen...
I give you...
Plymouth's Bretonside Bus Station.
It has graffiti everywhere, uneven pavements, piped music 24 hours a day that denies you the chance of a nap at any time while waiting for a coach, the toilets are filthy and have ultra violet lights to stop drug users from injecting in them and, a few years ago, a woman was stabbed to death there.
Ladies and Gentlemen...
I give you...
Plymouth's Bretonside Bus Station.
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
Very true. So is the Bus Station
OI !
though i grant you the bus station is very very grim indeed......many years of running it down and not re-furbishing......plus they now have plans to move it completely out of the town centre......knobs, the main thing going for it is being right in the centre of town !
I was there a few years ago whilst on my way to Cambridge. I didn't want to mention it in case it had been improved recently. Evidently it hadn't!
fuck you!
Preston. I'm sure Brutalist architecture seemed a good idea at the time...
although, it is a bit grim inside due to not being refurbished in 40-odd years. and people keep on getting reversed over 'cause it's so innacessible they walk across the aprons. it's a beautiful building though...
i nominate blackpool & birmingham.
I know Plymouth Bretonside bus station. Yes it is grim, even on a sunny summer day. I don't remember the piped music though and I was there one day over Easter recently. I didn't hear about the stabbing, but there is quite a lot of sudden death in Plymouth, so I am not surprised.
All bus stations are grim though.
Kathgodam in India. It's the gateway to places like Almora, stunning sections of the Uttaranchal Himalaya, but boy is it a fucking dump. 
I had to spend 8 hours there once, it was like being in purgatory.
I had to spend 8 hours there once, it was like being in purgatory.
Ground Elder
Well-Known Member
I'm voting for Bretonside as well, although I've never ventured there after dark, when I expect it is much more more exciting.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Puduraya in KL isn't that grand, but I'd imagine there's loads of places a lot worse
It's hot, it's not somewhere you'd want to go if you're asthmatic and half the coaches park in the basement level where you struggle to breathe because of the heat and fumes
It's hot, it's not somewhere you'd want to go if you're asthmatic and half the coaches park in the basement level where you struggle to breathe because of the heat and fumes
Pamplona is OK compared to Granada. Why are bus stations such seedy places full of dogey fucks?
In Granada bus station I was beaten by plain clothes security. Sat on the floor with my rucksack by a socket so I could charge my phone. Two guys appear demanding I get up. I tell them where to go and suddenly batons appear from nowhere and they start smashing me around the thighs.
Try using the gents in Granada bus station at 4am. You get pestered non-stop with offers of anything you want from seedy gay sex to hard drugs.
It's as much the people hanging around and the security at Granada I dislike as much as the grimness of the place. I just hate being there. Does the city no justice at all. That said, Granada is fading rapidly with spiralling street crime and a ban on all street art.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Meltingpot
Living in our pools we soon forget about the sea
I agree, it's awful. For a long time the council have promised to do it up but it's never happened.
There's a great pub just down the road though (the King's Head).
The new one in Bath is pretty bad due to its architecture. Probably slightly better than the old one.
In fact the best bus station the Bath's had (that I have experienced at least) could well be the temporary one they plonked in a car park!
I'm sure there are worse bus stations in the world though so I won't complain.
In fact the best bus station the Bath's had (that I have experienced at least) could well be the temporary one they plonked in a car park!
I'm sure there are worse bus stations in the world though so I won't complain.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
Soulless, but nowhere near as horrific as Nottingham's former Victoria Coach station which somehow managed to attract a northwesterly gale even in midsummer.
(Demolished about ten years ago to make way for the new House of Fraser)
Dunno. The Las Vegas Greyhound station in the mid 90's was spectacuarly grim & seedy - even by Greyhound standards!
Jakarta stands out as well.
tom_craggs
Well-Known Member
Bath bus station does a nice job at providing a contrast to the City's Georgian grandeur.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
The old covered one at Chelmsford used to be pretty grim on the inside (grubby and slightly dull 20s deco-ish exterior) but when they redeveloped the site they fucked up the bus channels so that no buses could actuall fit in it, and had to do loads of remedial work...
What's ironic is that there are any number of really great bus garages (Stockwell, the old tramshed at the top of Brixton hill)...
What's ironic is that there are any number of really great bus garages (Stockwell, the old tramshed at the top of Brixton hill)...
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