WHAT happened to the health and safety in Tavistock?

At 2.15pm on October 13 (the day before Goose Fair) I arrived at Tavistock bus station to get the 2.30pm bus home. There was a roundabout ride under construction with people unloading two big trucks and taking the parts over to people who were building the ride. All this took up half the bus station.

Only two bus bays were in use, both taken, and other buses had to unload their passengers wherever they could in the bus station.

Some of the passengers, in order to get to the safety of the station platform, had to pass within a few feet of the construction area. Myself, and other people waiting, thought this to be very dangerous.

Why was the ride allowed to be erected when the bus station was still open and very busy? If there was a good reason for this then the area where the construction was taking place should have been cordoned off with safety barriers and someone from the event organisers should have been there to direct people from the buses to the safety of the bus station platform.

Paul Dorrington

Gunnislake