Elderly man found waiting for bus that left 10 years ago (From Echo)
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Elderly man found waiting for bus that left 10 years ago
4:00pm Monday 10th December 2012 in Local News By David Trayner
SCHOOL bus stops may be changed after dozens of confused adults were left waiting for regular buses that never came.
Southend Council is considering changing three former seafront service bus stops in Shoebury Common Road, now only used for Stevenson’s schools service, as people have been waiting at them for regular buses.
Peter Grubb, 65, owner of nearby Uncle Tom’s Cabin, said: “I have been personally involved in dozens of incidents where I have made it my business to help unfortunate folk stood at the bus stop waiting for a bus to come.
“During the summer months not a day goes by when people are not standing there.”
Mr Grubb, who has ran the seafront kiosk for more than 30 years, found an elderly man who had been waiting at one of the stops for 40 minutes on Saturday, December 1. The man thought he must have just missed a bus.
The business owner said: “It was an elderly man in an isolated spot. If he continued to wait there it could have caused him all sorts of stress.”
Mr Grubb, who has been raising concerns over the stops for about three years, said someone put up a sign warning the stops were only for school buses this summer, but it was removed.
He has suggested putting a notice stating: “schools service only” on a vacant space where the numbers of buses using the stops would be.
Open top buses ran from Shoebury to Leigh during the summer using the stops until about a decade ago. Mr Grubb would prefer the service to return, but if not he wants to prevent people waiting in vain for it.
Councillor Tony Cox, cabinet member for transport on Southend Council, has asked officers to look into changing the signs to show that they are only for schools services.
He said: “I have asked our officers to look into seeing if we can have a sign to indicate it is a school service.”
Comments(15)
firedog
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4:41pm Mon 10 Dec 12
loppyears
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5:15pm Mon 10 Dec 12
veralynn
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6:03pm Mon 10 Dec 12
Displeased of Shoebury
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6:04pm Mon 10 Dec 12
they still be waiting there till domsday
perplexedofSouthend
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6:41pm Mon 10 Dec 12
beaulocks
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7:28pm Mon 10 Dec 12
Is it because he talks a lot but does very little?
Or as Criss300 says "he is one" and thats all there is to it?
Defend yourself Coxie, dont spend your life sitting on the fence. Or bus stop.
shoeburyboy
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7:56pm Mon 10 Dec 12
I have often stopped and told people to walk to the nearest stop at maplin way
I bet you all in a years time they will still
be there
DogsMessInLeigh
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8:09pm Mon 10 Dec 12
Old Boy
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9:53pm Mon 10 Dec 12
Old Boy
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9:54pm Mon 10 Dec 12
Ian P
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7:25am Tue 11 Dec 12
shoeburylad
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6:02pm Tue 11 Dec 12
Ian P wrote:Isn't asking officers to look at putting a sign to let people know that only a school service stops here the polite way of getting this done?
As cabinet member for transport do not ask officers to look into changing the signs, grow a pair and tell them to do it. It is a no brainer and as we in Engineering would JFDI!!!!
Brunning999
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9:16pm Tue 11 Dec 12
This autumn we called in for tea and a bacon sandwich and they had nothing in there worth eating.
The owner needs a rethink.
pendulum
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3:50am Wed 12 Dec 12
Because we can't just get things done in this country any more, can we?
cris300 says...
4:40pm Mon 10 Dec 12