Author: Sal
Trinity Road Bus Shelters: Positive Update
Tuesday, 11th March, 2008 at 5:18 pm, Isle of Wight
Some great news came out of the Ventnor Town Council last night with regard to the Trinity Road bus shelters.
As you may remember the issue of the bus shelters was raised on the VentnorBlog forum last year, since then the item was picked up and action was kick started for a project to repair and smarten up the bus shelters.
So far an amazing £1600 has been raised and this is broken down as £250 from Southern Vectis, £500 from the Safer Neighbourhoods, £250 from Ventnor Enhancement and £600 from the Ventnor Town Council.
This amount will be used for materials along with volunteers time to spruce up said shelters.
The plans is to replace roofs, install new waste bins, fit new lighting and surround the shelters with new planting.
It is hoped that the refurbed bus shelters will be ready in time for Easter and should make a great impression on visitors to the town.
Congratulations to everyone involved and well done to all those who have put their hands in their pockets or are offering their manpower.
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March 11th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
this is lovely news , many thanks to all the kind people and to mark for his real hard work ,
March 12th, 2008 at 8:42 am
“…volunteers time to spruce up said shelters…”
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excellent - let’s see if the volunteers can do even better than unst
there’s a lad in unst who achieved internet acclaim - although his bus shelter web site has now been taken down
http://shetlopedia.com/The_Unst_Bus_Shelter
http://uwcgb.live.visionwt.com/uwcgb/news_events/donation_by_first_year
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or the residents who titivate fowey!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/articles/2006/05/11/bus_stop_feature.shtml
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=529167&in_page_id=1770
March 24th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
One of these bus shelters has already been vandalised - Someone has painted the lovely island stone with bloody white emulsion. Conservation area?
March 24th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Number one, you don’t paint stone when there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s a job that’s hard to reverse.
Number two - well done for providing anyone with a spray can the perfect white canvas to paint on - hopefully one of the more talented artists will come to the rescue and put a work of art up there before the taggers deface the wall and Mr Reed is out with his paintbrush again.
I wholeheartedly support the renovations (it was sparked through the forum afterall), but why oh why did they have to paint the blooming wall?
March 24th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
It’s actually anti graffiti paint Guiseppe.
It was put on as a last attempt to hide the graffiti in place already, that could not be removed (despite considerable efforts to do so) as it had seeped too far into what is very porous stone.
I’m sorry you don’t like it. A lot of thought and discussion took place before using it.
One benefit it brings is to brighten the shelter up.
The shelter opposite will also feel the same effects very soon.
Next you will see waste bins, renovated seating and lighting plus some other touches.
Sympathies are with you Guiseppe, but thanks to the actions of a minority (hopefully), there was no choice.
Now what we could perhaps do with help with, is a device to deliver a non lethal shock to those that choose to use the inside of the shelters as a public convenience.
March 24th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Did they try sandblasting the stone? Not sure whether the budget would’ve stretched to that mind you.
March 24th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Thanks Sal,
That’s very kind of you. No need to apologise at all. On reflection we should really have warned folks what would happen. I take reponsibility for not doing that. Only excuse is that we have been so busy over the last two weeks. It is very understandable that anyone would be shocked. The graffiti was not even elegant to look at!!
Sandblasting would be a problem as the stone is so easily damaged. It’s a good point Sal, but would be costly to do with accuracy. The problem is how far in the graffiti has penetrated.
It is a lovely stone though, and I am glad we can protect it at all. The alternative would be a steel and perspex shelter!!
We have a small volunteer team ready to look after both shelters as soon as they are ready in a sort of neighbourhood watch manner.
We are building up a lessons learnt from this particular project, and everyone’s critique and observations are very welcome. That will help us as we move to the next project…….
Thanks,
Mark
March 25th, 2008 at 9:38 am
I had heard a rumour that the one by central car park was going to be replaced with such. That would be a grave shame if it’s true. Perhaps you could confirm one way or the other?
March 25th, 2008 at 10:13 am
I had the same thought when I saw the wall being painted, but i wasn’t able to stop and ask.
Agree it does brighten the shelter inside, but a shame they had to paint over the stone.