Swansea bus station
Swansea City bus station Gorsaf Fysus Dinas Abertawe | |||||
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| File:Bus Station in Swansea.jpg The station in July 2018 | |||||
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| Location | Swansea City Centre Swansea | ||||
| Coordinates | Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). | ||||
| Operated by | Swansea City Council | ||||
| Bus stands | 23 | ||||
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| History | |||||
| Opened | 1979 2010 (rebuilt) | ||||
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Swansea City bus station[1] is a bus station serving Swansea, Wales. It lies immediately to the west of the Quadrant Shopping Centre and southwest of a Tesco superstore.[2]
The station has 20 stands for local bus services with three more serving national coach services.[3] Coach services operated by National Express run westward to Llanelli, Carmarthen, and Haverfordwest, and eastward to London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bristol, as well as Heathrow Airport and Gatwick Airport.
There is a taxi rank at the south end of the station.
History and redevelopment
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The bus station opened along with the Quadrant shopping centre in 1979,[4] replacing the old bus station opposite (next to the Grand Theatre). The bus station was becoming run down by the mid-2000s and plans were put forward by the city council to redevelop the site into a more modern bus facility.[5]
In July 2008, it was announced that funding from the European Convergence programme was approved to help with the £11 million redevelopment of the station. On 1 August 2008 it was confirmed that work on the new bus station would begin in January 2009, but it was headlined in the South Wales Evening Post on 1 December 2008, that work would not start until May 2009.[6] The new bus station opened on 6 December 2010. New retail units were built within the bus station building but opened at a later date;[7] these include a Greggs bakery, Costa Coffee and a Co-operative store.
See also
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- ^ Abertawe Superstore | Tesco
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External links
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- Lua error in Module:Official_website at line 94: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
