New-look Leicester railway station praised by city mayor Sir Peter Soulsby
A refurbished railway station has been given the civic seal of approval.
More than £6 million has been invested in improvements to Leicester's railway station over the past year.
They include a new entrance and shopping area, refurbished ticket office, concourse and waiting rooms, resurfaced platforms and updated customer information boards.
Access to the station has also changed, with the re-building of passenger drop-off area and short-stay car park and taxi ranks.
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The revamp was paid for by Network Rail, the Department for Transport and East Midlands Trains.
City mayor Sir Peter Soulsby, who was guest of honour at the official opening yesterday, said: "Leicester station is a fantastic building and this ambitious refurbishment has created a truly welcoming and attractive gateway into our city.
"I want to congratulate Network Rail and East Midlands Trains on this successful and sensitive redevelopment."
Martin Frobisher, Network Rail's route managing director for the East Midlands, said: "The work has made the station more accessible, attractive and welcoming for visitors and locals.
"It now looks and feels like a modern station and has radically improved the customer experience."
Comments
by prog_rock_fan
Wednesday, October 03 2012, 7:35AM
“@watermead: "We already have pete & palmers cycle lanes in abundance that nobody uses."
This is factually wrong. The downtown cycle lanes are quite heavily used, each and every day.
If you want to insult Mr Soulsby and/or Mr Palmer, do go ahead - I myself have had harsh words for both of them on this site. But please, stick to facts. Downtown Leicester has been crying out for cycle lanes for years, for the safety of cyclists, motorists, and pedestrians alike - and now they're in place, and they get plenty of use. I don't care who put them there. It's not a matter for political point-scoring.
Mr Soulsby can be rightly savaged for his back-dated pay rise at a time of public-sector pay freezes, and Mr Palmer can be excoriated for - well, for just about everything he ever did in politics. But please, leave the cycle lanes alone. ;)”
by heisspartacus
Wednesday, October 03 2012, 7:30AM
“Oh_come_on
I agree. And as you say "having conversations with themselves" also hapens. Not so easy to find but probably worse with no single object as here”
by Oh_come_on
Wednesday, October 03 2012, 7:18AM
“@heisspartacus
Yes I have noticed the same pattern with the user names you mentioned, who hasn't! At least this user doesn't try to pretend to be more than one person, having conversations with themselves but openly sticks to the same personality regardless of name”
by heisspartacus
Wednesday, October 03 2012, 6:04AM
“Watermead also posts under variations of "Leicester this or that". If he does not then he does not just copy but cuts and pastes.
See count von count, pete, Muppets etc. And the ref to copied is the best example, because many of his/her comments have been removed”
by Oh_come_on
Tuesday, October 02 2012, 6:59PM
“@watermead please can you explain the point of mentioning that you have retained a copy of your posting? As you wrote the post you already know what you have said. if it is removed you can't use it to repost as it will just be removed again. Are you planning to publish some damning report showing a mass conspiracy behind the moderating of posts?
P.s. Can I just mention....not copied!!”
by watermead
Tuesday, October 02 2012, 5:15PM
“A slight error previously made.The word deleted was miss spelled.My mistake.But copied the print before mercury censors remove it .
N O B O D Y”
by wwigwag
Tuesday, October 02 2012, 10:56AM
“There are drop off points and indeed pick up its just people are to lazy to drive into the station and look?”
by leicestersing
Tuesday, October 02 2012, 9:56AM
“It is not user friendly- there is no place to drop off people with luggage, or to pick them up unless you are disabled- or are willing to pay 50p for the parking bays. Some of the disabled bays-6 currently should be multi use, as i doubt they will all be used- someone needs to do an observation of the use of the car parking area- and re-jig it so it meets everyone's needs.”