Lincoln bus station demolished

This morning, the Lincoln bus station on Melville Street was demolished.

This is because of a new £30 million project to create a Transportation Hub, which is intended to transform the city centre and people’s access to it.

The project involves building a state-of-the-art bus station, 1,000 space multi-storey car park, retail space and a new pedestrian plaza.

However, the project has come with some disruptions, as diversions have had to be made around the roadworks being done for the project.

Angela Andrews, chief executive of Lincoln City Council, spoke to LSJ News about these disruptions. She said:

“There’s a bit of disruption in terms of the road closures and the car park closures.

“I understand it will take probably two weeks for them to actually take the bus station down, so by the end of November this will be floored and then we’ll start to put up the steel structure for the car parks.

“We’ll really start to see some momentum with the project going into the New Year.”

City of Lincoln Council have partnered with the Department for Transport and the Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership to secure £13 million funding.

Other partners to the project are the Lincolnshire Co-op, Network Rail, Lincolnshire County Council and East Midlands Trains.

Temporary bus stops have been placed along Melville Street, just outside the demolition site.

The new Transportation Hub will open in early 2018.