Questions about the suitability of the new bus shelter at Port Erin’s new transport ’hub’ have been raised by a village resident.

The new ’hub’, by the station, is part of a regeneration project and it directs buses through the shopping area rather than along Bridson Street, where there is a shelter and toilets. Instead bus passengers can use the station waiting room and toilets.

A Mrs Kneen wrote to the village commissioners and asked whether the train station would be used in the winter? She added there was just one seat under the roof, it was ’very open’ and didn’t give much protection from the weather.

The Bridson Street shelter could seat 12, and toilets were nearby. Commissioners’ clerk Jason Roberts said there would be a review of the Bridson Street shelter in September, there would be time locks on the toilets at the railway station.

Barbara Guy said: ’People could wait in the waiting room and come out when they see the bus, now people are saying when the last train goes they cannot go in there.’

Phil Crellin proposed they write to the Department of Infrastructure which runs the regeneration projects.