New Saskatchewan Transit Bus Terminal to be built in Regina

[Nate]

Originally Posted by [url=http://www.stcbus.com/Corporate/ci_newdepot.aspx

Saskatchewan transit website[/url]] July 14, 2005

Travellers Will Benefit From New STC Depot In Regina

The Saskatchewan Transportation Corporation (STC) announced today that it will build a new bus depot and head office in downtown Regina

"STC's current facility is around 50 years old. It has served Saskatchewan travellers well for those years, but it is no longer sufficient for the job," Minister responsible for STC Maynard Sonntag said. "A new facility will better serve the needs of the company's customers and staff, and will be one more enhancement to downtown Regina ."



STC President
Ray Clayton

Minister Responsible for STC
Hon. Maynard Sonntag

"The Crown Investments Corporation is supplying STC with a grant of up to $2.2 million at this time to assemble the land required for a new facility," Crown Management Board Minister Pat Atkinson said. "This will allow the company to get on with the detailed planning needed, and to move onto the contract and construction phases."

A firm budget will be presented once plans are finalized.


The cost of the new facility including land is estimated at $14.5 million. By comparison, renovating the current depot would cost approximately $2 million just to bring it up to building code and accessibility requirements and it would still be inadequate in terms of age, space and comfort for travellers.

A new facility is the best all-around solution, and I am pleased to announce today that work will proceed shortly toward that end," Sonntag said.


Minister of CIC
Hon. Pat Atkinson

"One of the core commitments of the Crown Investments Corporation is quality service to the customers of our subsidiary Crowns. The CIC Board feels that this new facility will assist STC in ensuring that quality service," Atkinson said.

"This is an exciting announcement for Regina," Mayor Pat Fiacco said. "Making the Regina Downtown community more competitive helps attract new residents and businesses which, in turn, benefits all of Regina 's residents and business community."


Regina Mayor Pat Fiacco

The new facility will be built along Saskatchewan Drive between Broad Street and Osler Street , with a significant presence on both Saskatchewan Drive and Broad Street . The bus lanes will extend down Osler Street . Target for opening of the new facility is late spring/early summer of 2007.

There was a bit of debate surrounding this though, since ridership is down, and the STC has been losing money for the past few years. It's nice to have a new station since the old one is a dive, but economically it's not such a sound idea. At least that's my opinion.

[k19]

GO REGINA GO

[reginaguy]

have they already started building it? Ive noticed a large building under contruction around there.. or is that something else?

[Rhino]

I hope its something else , so then you can look forwords to more comming construction . P.S. because they beat us 3-0 last night ...
Saskatoon Blades suck!

[۩SkyScraper۩]

good news for Regina

[samsonyuen]

Good news. Is the new terminal close to the old one?

[reginaguy]

Originally Posted by samsonyuen

Good news. Is the new terminal close to the old one?

The new one will be on the same side of downtown, just 5 or so blocks to the north

[reginaguy]

I doubt this is even important news anymore, but I just found the rendering for the new depot


looks a little better than the old, doesn't it?

[reginaguy]

on second thought.. where is STC getting all this money from? I thought they were barely making enough to pay the bills

[Nate]

It's not really making enough to pay the bills... They have been losing money the last few years... so really I don't know why they need to build such a nice new place.

[reginaguy]

well hopefully the new depot can attract more riders. I can imagine a lot of people avoid taking the bus simply because the current depot is a crack infested shit box.. I wouldn't go in there

plus the area east of downtown can certainly use an image boost

here are some more renderings.. I like it, looks more like an airport, sorta





and the new building will be getting rid of 2 ugly parking lots!

[Rhino]

Thats great news and looks ausome !!!!!!

[Nate]

Well if they wanted to increase ridership, the should also decrease the cost a bit. I think it is over $50 to get a trip from Regina to Saskatoon. For that kind of money I'd rather drive myself.