Pennine Reach is a new rapid bus transit scheme which is a £40m Labour joint venture between Hyndburn Borough Council, Lancashire County Council and Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council.
The system is designed to improve bus links on the Blackburn, Darwen and Accrington corridors and will tackle the problems of congestion on bus routes, regular illegal parking which delays services and the reasons for declining numbers of passengers.
The scheme will coincide with major improvements to both Blackburn and Accrington town centres, a new ticketing and passenger information system and a statutory quality partnership with bus operators to improve services.
Work has now started and construction of the new Accrington bus station at Crawshaw Street (to the rear of B&M Bargains, Subway, etc) will begin in Autumn 2014. Structural highways improvements will be completed by late 2015 with the scheme to be fully implemented by 2016.
For more information and updates as each phase is completed go to
http://lancashire.gov.uk/penninereach
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