General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

As it is today with a big hole in the middle of it ?

If the Metrolink comes to Wigan, then route the line from just before where it crosses the Chapel Lane bridge and run it across where the council car park is located on the opposite corner to Brocol House and then run the Metrolink up King Street, I know that is where several bars and nightclubs are located now, but that street is slowly but surely dying, then at the top of King Street at the junction with Wallgate, do some demolishing and make a Metrolink Station which will serve both train stations and that part of Wallgate and King Street etc, some Metrolink services would be routed into the Wigan Northwest Station, the Metrolink would then run up Wallgate and then down Market Street, with a station on Market Street which would serve the Market Place area and Bus Station, at the bottom of Market Street at the junction with New Market Street on the site of the old access road, where the taxi rank was located outside of Morrisons and the present Market Hall, place a more substantial Metrolink Station, which would serve whatever has replaced the site of the Galleries, and it would serve the Wigan College complexes, which have been expanding, the Yooth Zone, Mesnes Park and that part of Wigan Town Centre, the Metrolink could then run along Mesnes Street and Crompton Street with a Station on Crompton Street to serve that part of Standishgate etc

The Metrolink could then join Riverway and run along it to the junction with Darlington Street and King Street, where it would rejoin the main railway line to Manchester alongside the inward Metrolink line going towards King Street.

So that is your mass transit system in place, and would it cost a fortune to install that, because no major structures such as bridges would have to be built in Wigan Town Centre for it, and it is only the same as places like Eccles have had done.

So on the site of the old Galleries, well on the site of the old underground service area, build a multistorey car park, to serve whatever is put on to the site, whether it be a hotel and leisure facilities etc, as regards a new Market Hall, I suppose you could keep the present Market Hall and completely refurbish it, putting in a food Pavillion or build a new one on the site of the old Marketgate as is planned now, and if there is any land left over, then landscape it with garden area's, but leave it earmarked for any future developments which maybe done in Wigan Town Centre, just let the area evolve on it's own, because no one knows what the future will bring, and convert the Pagefield/Rylands Mill into flats, instead of building multi storey flats on the site as is planned now