There's one of the earliest MtoGo's here, and one of the biggest: Southport gets city centre levels of traffic.

It's also got automatic ticket gates fitted, and I was pleased to see pensioners happily swiping their travel passes on the yellow pads to get through. It bodes well for the Walrus. The only person who had a problem with it was a girl in her twenties who couldn't work out you have to put your ticket in the slot to get through. Sometimes I worry for the future of our nation.

Beyond, the glass roof has been cleaned and opened up, the signage improved, and the nasty ultraviolet lights have been pulled out of the toilet. There were 13 platforms at Southport until Beeching, back when it was called SouthportThe planning board meeting Feb. 27 and regardless of their determination, the project will go to the City Commission for a final decision.

The property is owned by KYSO Corporation, or Dan Huestis, and is part of a larger 227.63 acre parcel.

A portion of the larger parcel includes 10.21 acres of Airfield Restrictive Easement that cannot be disturbed for development, decreasing the total potential development area to 217.42 acres.

The entire parcel is in the Cascade County Planning jurisdiction and zoned Agricultural, which restricts development to single-family detached units or two-unit dwellings on parcels that must be at least 20 acres in size, according to the staff report. Since the parcel is contiguous to the city limits because of the east end retail annexation, KYSO filed a certificate of survey