Bletchleyite
Veteran Member
A bus station joining on to a big shopping centre seems to work well in Warrington and Doncaster.
It's a fairly good idea to have the bus station in the location most people want to go in the city centre. Either way with Preston it'd be at one end, but the station end would be more useful than the fairly run down other end. The Fishergate is no longer the premium "first rate" shopping centre it was, it's a bit run down itself with more "second rate" shops in it, but it's still a big destination so far as Preston goes, plus the railway.
It wasn't such a popular idea at the Arndale Centre in Manchester though.
Partly that was because it was an indoor facility (like Aylesbury) which was choked with fumes, and partly the bomb structurally damaged it. Had the latter not happened it may well have lasted, well, at least for as long as Cross St did. And of course Shudehill is just over the road from the Arndale.