Save Our Station!
Blackpool Council is considering plans to close Blackpool South railway station and move it several hundred yards to the south, or even make Pleasure Beach Station the new terminus for the well-used line.
The plans would deal a major blow to hopes of giving Blackpool a green, integrated transport system and would also damage the council’s own plans for sustainable regeneration of what is one of the town’s most deprived wards.
In conjunction with Blackpool and Fylde Rail Users’ Association, Gordon has launched an e-petition to present to the Transport Secretary, Lord Adonis. Please sign up!
Gordon has told the minister of his ‘extreme concern’ at the relocation proposal, which he said would be enormously damaging for residents and visitors alike, at a time when the Government is trying to encourage greater public transport use.
What do you think? Should Blackpool South be moved from its present site in Waterloo Road? Or should the line be extended further towards town, serving the football club with its new South Stand? How do you think the proposal will affect tourism and other local businesses?
Have you any ideas for developing the railway and other public transport in Blackpool – a town with below-average car ownership?
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Gordon Welcomes Rise In South Station Numbers
2010/04/21
Gordon says new figures showing that passenger numbers at Blackpool South Station rising by over 6% in 2008/09 strengthens the case for keeping it in its current location
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Gordon Launches Petition to Save Station
2009/11/30
Friday afternoon South Shore shoppers lined up to sign a petition launched on Waterloo Road by Blackpool MP Gordon Marsden with the Blackpool Rail Users’ Association against plans to close the existing Blackpool South rail station
