The editor’s sideways view of the bus scene
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Our man in Wales, Rhodri Clark, recently climbed the temporary scaffolding around the clock tower at Cardiff Central railway station for an article for our sister publication Modern Railways. While there, he photographed the view across the southeast corner of Central Square to the site of the city’s future bus station.
It reminded him of the panorama across Central Square which he photographed in March 1991 from the top of a different building, a Cardiff City Council office block with a new device on its roof to measure concentrations of airborne pollutants. The railway station is out of view to the right of the 1991 photograph. The proximity of the bus and rail stations was the envy of many other cities.
The bus station was closed in stages, the final section being demolished in 2015 to make way for the new office building visible on the far left of the February 2019 photo. Bus passengers were displaced to assorted stops on streets around the city centre a…
