What’s Liskeard got that Lewes wants?

Thursday 8th October 2026 Answer: a brand new bus station. And, unlike Heckmondwike, Liskeard isn’t in a Mayoral Authority. But it is in a Unitary Council which has had two financially attractive Devolution Deals (2015 and 2023); using these to boost public transport through various initiatives all over the County . The new Liskeard bus station, which opened in July, is an example of such initiatives. It came about following suggestions made by a local Active Travel Group. Blog reader Peter let me know about this development earlier this year. He’s a member of the Group and explained how he “had expressed concern that the two bus stops in the main road, opposite the Post Office, had been designed in the days of Western Greyhound’s small buses and that Go Cornwall’s large buses were inevitably clipping the kerbstones when arriving and departing. Plus, on occasions when two buses were needing to serve the stop, or coinciding with a National Express departure, traffic would come to a…