During a councillor briefing meeting, the cabinet discussed the future of Colchester's bus station on Osborne Street and the possibility of building a new one. Team Colchester, made up of Colchester Council and Essex County Council, hope to create a bus shelter consultation, which the public can respond to, during the autumn. Transport - the bus station in Osborne Street (Image: Newsquest)Mark Goacher, councillor for the Castle ward, said a new bus station for the city is long overdue. "We need a proper bus station as the one in Osborne Street has no facilities and it is especially unsavoury at night. "It is a grotty excuse for a place to be called a bus station.