13 bus and the West Bulls junction

John Fareham and John Abbott are working to influence East Riding of Yorkshire Council to take the necessary steps to reconfigure the junction of Bricknell Avenue and Hull Road, Cottingham (where the West Bulls pub stands) to allow Stagecoach service 13 to go that way and not via Hotham Road North. A briefing paper on this was submitted at our behest to the September meeting of Wyke Area Committee. We explained that some considerable number of years ago, buses had run via Hotham Road North before and, in the light of the unsuitability of large double decker buses to going via Hotham Road North, we had had to struggle to get them re-routed. The Committee shared our concerns about ERYC using tenuous and even inaccurate evidence to “prove” that accident statistics were good reason to do nothing and voted to get the portfolio holder to support our campaign. We have also passed on the briefing paper to our Conservative colleagues for both Cottingham wards in the hope that if ERYC won’t listen to us, they might at least listen to their own councillors. That said, we have been campaigning on this issue for some time and will continue to do so until we get the result that we want and that we are given to understand the bus operator wants too.