There's very sensible editorial in today's LEP about the bus station that's worth the 50p the paper costs on it's own.
12 years ago, those of us who stood up for the bus station were first ignored, then ridiculed, then actively fought against. We were called 'luddites', resistors of progress and many other insulting names. Today it's clear we were right all along and that keeping our bus station is the very best option for Preston.
How much money and time would have been saved if we'd been listened to back then, and how much the city could already have progressed, instead of being locked into stagnation. It goes to show that if you stand bravely for good ideas when everyone else is mocking you, eventually, what's right gets proved to be right.
There's a way to go yet till the bus station is definitely saved, but the momentum today is with us.
This report from 'Social History Jottings' puts the importance of Preston Bus Station into it's historical context.
e-Petition
There's an e-petition on Preston City Council's website calling on the council to debate the future of the bus station and to give the people a referendum on whether it should be kept. If there are 1350 signatures on it from people who live, work or study in Preston, the council has to have that debate.
You can sign the bus station petition here: http://preston.moderngov.co.uk/mgEPetitionDisplay.aspx?ID=14&RPID=207882&HPID=207882&displaypref=0
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River, You and I need to meet. Thank you for you're support. I won't give up.This is something I feel strongly about, having wrote to every Councillor two weeks ago, on receipt of many replies they were singing from the same hymn sheet. Drip fed and brain washed. I would welcome you're help when preparing my 'Presentation to the Council on the 2nd February'. I will have the required number of signatures by January. Feb. 2nd will be the next viable Full Council Meeting. 15th December is too soon and I will be leaving stand 44 on an Eavesway coach bound for Southampton. Oceana sails on the evening tide.
Do you have to live in Preston to vote. I'm sure I could get a few folk to sign, mostly people who are not in Preston though. I hope to be down on my way to Coventry in January. Let me know if there is anything I can do,
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