Wolverhampton bus station ready for first passengers

With its gleaming windows and sleek curved design, Wolverhampton's new £22.5million bus station is ready to welcome its first passengers tomorrow.

Thousands of tons of concrete and hundreds of miles of steel cabling have gone into ensuring that the station has already become an iconic landmark for the city.

But, as they give passengers a first glimpse inside the depot, transport bosses have revealed how they hope their attention to detail inside the station will more than live up to its impressive facade.

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State-of-the-art technology has been installed throughout the station to set it apart from the dated existence of the former Pipers Row facility, which closed in April last year.

It today emerged free pocket devices will be issued to blind passengers to help them find the correct bus stand while a network of flat-screen information boards will give information about services.

And touch-screen information points detailing the routes of buses leaving the station have also been installed.