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Building work prevents buses stopping in hospital grounds
Date published: 10/02/2010
Buses should be able to stop and let people get on and off again when major building work is completed at the Royal Oldham Hospital.
A bus passenger complained that the 402 Royton circular bus run by Bluebird was prevented from picking people up or dropping them off, even though it runs through the hospital grounds. He added: “That seems a complete waste of time.
“I recently helped an elderly couple to walk to the entrance after they had to get off on Rochdale Road, even though the bus passed the hospital entrance.”
Major building work is under way including the creation of the Oldham Cancer Centre at the hospital.
And a spokesman for the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority said: “A number of bus services access the grounds to turn. However, building work within the hospital grounds is limiting space.
“If a bus was to stop within the grounds it would cause traffic congestion and potentially delay ambulances, which would be unacceptable.
“When building work is complete, GMPTE will examine whether bus services can be introduced at a safe and convenient location within the grounds.”
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To Fedupoldhamer you are quite obviously hale and hearty unlike my husband who as a very serious heart condition, and although i am lucky enough to be able to drive him right to the entrance of the hospital i feel really sorry for anyone who is unlucky enough to have to arrive by bus.The stop is at the top of a quite steep path and i am sure that quite a number of patients have a job walking that far.Maybe one day you will need the service. !!!
Well said Linda, the fedupoldhamer is obviously a person who has no compassion for anyone. Hopefully like you say, an attitude like that will come back and bite him on the backside in time.
sorry i may have come accross like i had no compassion at all! for the last 6 months that the building work has affected this service they have been building a brand new cancer centre that will provide oldhamers with state of the art cancer treatment. now surely this little inconvenience is worth it? after all i plus many others have worked hard doing my bit to raise money for it!
and like it says these buses add to the congestion for ambulances getting emergencies in.
i hope it never happens to him when i say this but when your poor husband is stuck in an amublance and cannot get into casulty because of a bus stuck in the grounds you'll be complaining about these buses then will you?
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theres a perfectly good bus stop on the main road and a perfectly good path that leads to it!
i wonder how fit and healthy the complainant was?
By fedupoldhamer @ 10/02/2010 15:12:45
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