Travelling public give their views on new Grand Central Station

Travelling public give their views on new Grand Central Station, September 9, 2024

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00:00Well sir, what do you make of this new Grand Central Station? Does it live up to the name?

00:05I think it does. I think it's an excellent addition for Belfast.

00:08Good to see the investment, good to see railways, trains, all in one place.

00:13You can come here and go to a multitude of destinations.

00:17What's not to like? It's time public transport was into the 21st century and this does it.

00:23Compared to the last bus station, Great Victoria Street, I feel like that one really didn't do Belfast justice

00:30considering it's the capital city of Northern Ireland.

00:33This one, I feel like already, a couple of days open, it's already looking really good,

00:40much more professional than what we originally had.

00:42I think it's a great improvement from the last one. It's definitely a lot easier to get about

00:46and there's lots of staff around to help you. It's clean, it's good.

00:51When I was here at 4 o'clock in the morning last night, I probably fell in love with the airport.

00:54They were safe, they were happy. It was great, it was good.

00:58It looks like an airport, really, more than a train station or a bus station.

01:01It would be great to see it fully operative with the trains and that.

01:05How does it compare to what you've got down south?

01:07Well, we're a little behind now. I think we need to really push up our act.

01:12Does it live up to the name?

01:13Absolutely, it's very grand. I'm really loving that there's an M&S,

01:18it's very big and great, it's quite good.

01:20It's just so open, you can see everything, you can be very clearly marked.

01:24The train board up there is very easy to read and I hate to make a comparison in New York City

01:30because I don't care for New York City, but it's a lot like Penn Station.

01:34You can just kind of see where everything is and it's just really nice.

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