More trouble over bus station shelters
Wednesday, 29th February 2012.
Part of Haverhill bus station was cordoned off this week after an inspection showed one of the new shelters was in a dangerous condition.
Cllr Anne Gower, a Haverhill member of Suffolk County Council, who installed the shelters, said she was furious and still trying to get to the bottom of what exactly was wrong.
"It seems when they installed the shelters they used the wrong type of concrete and now lime has leaked through it and eaten into the aluminium posts, making the shelter unstable," she said.
A spokesperson for St Edmundsbury Borough Council confirmed the problem had been discovered during a routine inspection by one of their inspectors, and they had reported it to the county council who had cordoned off the shelter for safety reasons.
The bus station shelters have been an ongoing saga since new ones were put in place three years ago.
Me,mbers of the public complained they were so badly designed as to be almost unusable and after a lot of protests, the county council replaced them with different ones.
The process was delayed because the company that built the first ones had gone out of business.
The new ones were found to be leaking water recently and it turned out the company that put them in had also gone out of business.
Cllr Gower admitted she was furious. "How are we employing people who don't know what concrete to use?" she said. "I despair. It doesn't give you much faith in the quality of the work being done."
Cllr Anne Gower, a Haverhill member of Suffolk County Council, who installed the shelters, said she was furious and still trying to get to the bottom of what exactly was wrong.
"It seems when they installed the shelters they used the wrong type of concrete and now lime has leaked through it and eaten into the aluminium posts, making the shelter unstable," she said.
A spokesperson for St Edmundsbury Borough Council confirmed the problem had been discovered during a routine inspection by one of their inspectors, and they had reported it to the county council who had cordoned off the shelter for safety reasons.
The bus station shelters have been an ongoing saga since new ones were put in place three years ago.
Me,mbers of the public complained they were so badly designed as to be almost unusable and after a lot of protests, the county council replaced them with different ones.
The process was delayed because the company that built the first ones had gone out of business.
The new ones were found to be leaking water recently and it turned out the company that put them in had also gone out of business.
Cllr Gower admitted she was furious. "How are we employing people who don't know what concrete to use?" she said. "I despair. It doesn't give you much faith in the quality of the work being done."
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