Durham’s new bus station opened to the public on Sunday 7 January. The new facility is located on the same site as the previous bus station and has been designed to be a modern transport hub that offers a safe and welcoming space for residents and visitors. It offers increased space for passengers and new facilities including toilets and baby changing space, improved information displays and additional seating in the passenger waiting area, plus an office space where security, cleaning, neighbourhood warden staff, representatives from Durham Constabulary and local operator Arriva will all be based.
Works continued on the city’s North Road to reinstate the road and footpath where temporary bus stops had been in place during the rebuilding works; the reinstatement is expected to be completed in the spring.
As a result of the reopening, all services departing from the temporary North Road stops which previously operated from the bus station reverted to using the bus station from 7 January. Arriva said it had also made some small changes to a number of services to accommodate the new stand allocations and assist in the removal of stand clashes between services.
