{"id":852,"date":"2008-02-21T22:54:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T22:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=852"},"modified":"2011-03-08T20:55:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T20:55:49","slug":"in-soviet-russia-bad-bus-station-flattens-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=852","title":{"rendered":"In Soviet Russia, bad bus station flattens you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bruce_George\">Bruce George<\/a>, MP for Walsall South and visitor to Walsall Beer Festival (which wins him a point or two), has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/2008\/02\/21\/plea-over-bus-station-rebuild\/\">called for the town&#8217;s bus station to be flattened<\/a> after another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/2008\/02\/20\/two-trapped-in-bus-crash\/\">accident<\/a>. I&#8217;ll admit it, I&#8217;ve defended it in the past, along with the art gallery, but it increasingly looks like after a mere 7 years, flattening it could be a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit shit.<\/p>\n<p>If we ignore the fact that it looks dated and stained already, and the fact that the wind and rain whistles through it in a most impressive manner, the design is still shit. It&#8217;s too small by a large margin: even though not all of the town&#8217;s services terminate there, and buses leaving have to cross buses arriving. There&#8217;s insufficent seating and queuing areas, and it&#8217;s basically a form-over-function excercise designed by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atelierten.com\/our-projects\/profiles\/0363-walsall_bus_station.pdf\">bunch of up-themselves tosser architects<\/a> that went badly wrong- <a href=\"http:\/\/findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_qn4158\/is_20000820\/ai_n14323335\">seemingly predicted<\/a> by one of those responsible for it!<br \/>\nCompared to (for example) Wednesbury&#8217;s it&#8217;s a poor effort- Wednesbury has a simple, boring, but effective bus station, Walsall has what seems to be a dangerous, unsightly mess that would probably be more functional is designed by drunken chimps.<\/p>\n<p>On crack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce George, MP for Walsall South and visitor to Walsall Beer Festival (which wins him a point or two), has called for the town&#8217;s bus station to be flattened after another accident. I&#8217;ll admit it, I&#8217;ve defended it in the past, along with the art gallery, but it increasingly looks like after a mere 7 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=852\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Soviet Russia, bad bus station flattens you!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-public-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}