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Sunderland railway station.

Transport hubs attract wrang uns. Shelter, light, seating, toliets and bit of warmth and of course a steady flow of potential victims.
 

Doberman said:
I was waiting outside the station for about 20 minutes the other afternoon and couldn't believe the number of utter scruffs that had set up residence directly outside. I'm all for supporting people who have fallen on hard times but these knackers were like flies around shit. Must have been 20 of them and they all knew each other. The police turned up twice, they knew the main culprits by name and moved them on very politely. They all shook hands, dispersed amicably then were back within minutes of the police leaving the area. Shouting and bawling at each other from across the street, pissed on stella and generally making the area directly outside the station really unpleasant. This was lunchtime on Tuesday.

I honestly don't know what the answer is but it really give off an awful impression of our city to any visitors. I have also just read that from 6pm, security lock most of the doors and lock the toilets so visitors have to ask their permission to use the disabled toilets because that end of the town is crawling with knackers that can't behave. Appalling.
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To be fair, that whole area is shocking, the wronguns just add to it. Grey, depressing, 60s buildings.
 
BlackHoleSun said:
It's not really directly relevant to the thread, but Durham bus station is this. Entrance to the city for plenty of visitors. Some sort of dispersal order in place for drinking, drugs, urinating, ASB

Police van outside yesterday. Could see the gang lurking in doorways and slightly up a side street. Copper having a bit crack and laugh with an elderly couple. Presumably they can't do anything unless they catch someone in the act and they'd all be back circling as soon as the van went anyway

So that's not the answer for Durham or Sunderland huh. As a side note, Park Lane bus station ain't no better. So, there is no answer?
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Durham Bus Station is worse than either Sunderland rail or bus stations. It's patrolled of an evening and always full of teenage gangs hanging around.
 
If we are honest it's only the local homogenous knackers who cause the problems. Everyone else just plodding on trying to ignore them.
 
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Anybody seen the bottom of this page? Is this a picture of what the new entrance onto high street is gonna look like?
 
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Skylon said:
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Anybody seen the bottom of this page? Is this a picture of what the new entrance onto high street is gonna look like?
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If it is it’s a million miles better than the current awful building there (so not very hard to look better), but I don’t find that very inspiring either. Looks like the sort of building that will age terribly and look shit in 20 years.
 
EDGE said:
Transport hubs attract wrang uns. Shelter, light, seating, toliets and bit of warmth and of course a steady flow of potential victims.
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Ya right there Kidda ..... Just look at Park Lane....Tramps bedding down for the night ...near the metro lifts and neebody doing feck all about it.

As for our Station...another shit hole in the town....only one door in four working and two security people on minimum wage doing feck all about the chavs and tramps.
 
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Sgt Pepper said:
If it is it’s a million miles better than the current awful building there (so not very hard to look better), but I don’t find that very inspiring either. Looks like the sort of building that will age terribly and look shit in 20 years.
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I quite like the actual entrance bit,its a bit unusual,but then there is what looks like 90's build holiday inn buildings on stilts around it. Awful.
 
The only way to improve it is to go back to opening it all up again to let some light in, otherwise it’s always gonna feel like a dark underground station

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Would be a huge job and cost but having the main entrance opposite three stories and onto the new high street development to the left and mackies corner to the right will be a great entrance for visitors, can still keep the other entrance as a back entrance or somehow connecting to the bridges
 
Skylon said:
I quite like the actual entrance bit,its a bit unusual,but then there is what looks like 90's build holiday inn buildings on stilts around it. Awful.
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garyeaststand said:
The only way to improve it is to go back to opening it all up again to let some light in, otherwise it’s always gonna feel like a dark underground station

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Would be a huge job and cost but having the main entrance opposite three stories and onto the new high street development to the left and mackies corner to the right will be a great entrance for visitors, can still keep the other entrance as a back entrance or somehow connecting to the bridges
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I’ve been awake ages so out of sheer boredom I had a search around for new railway stations after reading this thread again and come across this. If somewhere like Coventry can end up with something like this, surely we can?

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Looks like it’s based on a much more traditional design that actually looks like a station.
 
Sgt Pepper said:
I’ve been awake ages so out of sheer boredom I had a search around for new railway stations after reading this thread again and come across this. If somewhere like Coventry can end up with something like this, surely we can?

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Looks like it’s based on a much more traditional design that actually looks like a station.
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Looks class that, imagine something similar opening onto high street west
 
A follow up to the play that was on in Pop Recs a couple of weeks back. It was excellent and presented many diverse views of Sunderland, not just the good stuff. Making use of the station for something a bit different along with the craft market. Definitely worth having a look if you are in town today.
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