CHECKING back through eight weeks of the Courant , I see that only one letter favours moving the bus station to Loosing Hill, ie. Mike Coe – or rather he cringes at the fact that, according to Mike, everyone is against change in Hexham!

Obviously Mike, the local councillors and Northumberland County Council fail to realise who the buses carry into and out of Hexham.

Surely the bus services are for people who haven’t got a car or can no longer drive, young people, etc.

Have councillors no thought whatsoever, or conscience, about pushing for the bus station to be moved 200 yards from the centre of Hexham?

Why do they not take any notice of public opinion – that the vast majority of people want the bus station to stay where it is.

Do councillors not feel extremely guilty moving the station to Loosing Hill, so users have to walk an extra 200 yards to the centre of Hexham? Some bus users have difficulty walking a few yards.

Recently I was walking past Beales entrance when an old lady with a walking stick was standing, looking confused and lost.

I asked her if she was all right. She asked me if I could take her across the road to the bus station, which I did.

Now that lady, and lots of people like her, are going to have to walk an extra 200 yards to and from the bus station on Loosing Hill.

I realise that the council states there is going to be a bus stop either side of Priestpopple. That sounds fine doesn’t it! So is the taxi rank to be shifted, and if so where to?

Maybe they are going to do away with the car parking spaces!

On the other side of the road, where there is a bus stop for one bus, what happens when three buses arrive at the same time?

Or are they going to make more than one bus stop and stop delivery vehicles unloading!

Anne Pickering did a wonderful job getting 10,000 signatures against moving the bus station but it was a complete waste of time and energy.

Did she not realise that not only would the councillors take not a blind bit of notice, but they are not there to represent the public!

In fact I would go so far as to ask ‘have they got a hidden agenda?’

I recently attended a planning committee meeting about the building of 22 affordable houses at Greenhaugh.

All the committee, apart from two, stood up and said they had misgivings about using green belt land for the development. But when asked to vote, they all voted for it!

Now I am told there are going to be 70 more homes built along the Corbridge Road.

No doubt all my ramblings will fall on deaf ears. It is a pity the moving of the bus station didn’t raise as much forum as the car parking fiasco!

L. HODGSON,

Hexham