Swansea bus station
The station in July 2018 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Swansea City Centre Swansea | ||||
| Coordinates | 51°37′01″N 3°56′45″W / 51.61683°N 3.94586°W | ||||
| Operated by | Swansea City Council | ||||
| Bus stands | 23 | ||||
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| History | |||||
| Opened | 1979 2010 (rebuilt) | ||||
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Swansea City bus station[1] is a bus station serving Swansea, Wales. It lies immediately to the west of the Quadrant Shopping Centre and southwest of a Tesco superstore.[2]
The station has 20 stands for local bus services with three more serving national coach services.[3] Coach services operated by National Express run westward to Llanelli, Carmarthen, and Haverfordwest, and eastward to London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bristol, as well as Heathrow Airport and Gatwick Airport.
There is a taxi rank at the south end of the station.
History and redevelopment
The bus station opened along with the Quadrant shopping centre in 1979,[4] replacing the old bus station opposite (next to the Grand Theatre). The bus station was becoming run down by the mid-2000s and plans were put forward by the city council to redevelop the site into a more modern bus facility.[5]
In July 2008, it was announced that funding from the European Convergence programme was approved to help with the £11 million redevelopment of the station. On 1 August 2008 it was confirmed that work on the new bus station would begin in January 2009, but it was headlined in the South Wales Evening Post on 1 December 2008, that work would not start until May 2009.[6] The new bus station opened on 6 December 2010. New retail units were built within the bus station building but opened at a later date;[7] these include a Greggs bakery, Costa Coffee and a Co-operative store.
See also
References
- ^ "Bus Station". www.swanseacitycentre.com.
- ^ Abertawe Superstore | Tesco
- ^ "Swansea City Centre – Passenger Information". Swansea City Centre. 24 April 2009. Archived from the original on 29 June 2009. Retrieved 27 April 2008.
- ^ "A Timeline of Swansea". www.localhistories.org. Archived from the original on 25 November 2010.
- ^ "Bus station plans move a step closer". City and County of Swansea. 1 June 2007. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 4 July 2008.
- ^ "Overhaul for Swansea bus station". BBC News. 1 July 2008. Retrieved 4 July 2008.
- ^ "Swansea: The latest news, sport, what's on and business from Swansea and Gower". www.thisissouthwales.co.uk. Archived from the original on 9 December 2010.
External links
Media related to Swansea Bus Station at Wikimedia Commons