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Park-and-ride: a vital service, in more ways than one

Julian Ridge, Acting head of public transport, City of York Council, York, YO1
02 August 2019
Some of York’s park-and-ride sites are located close to retail parks and education establishments, so buses carry substantial numbers of outbound trips from the city centre in the morning peak. See letter from Julian Ridge
Some of York’s park-and-ride sites are located close to retail parks and education establishments, so buses carry substantial numbers of outbound trips from the city centre in the morning peak. See letter from Julian Ridge

 

I was very interested in your editorial ‘Park-and-ride blues’ (LTT 21 Jun). However, I feel that you are underplaying the usefulness of park-and-ride as a policy tool by seeing it as predominantly a mechanism for accessing town and city centres.

On a typical day, York’s six park-and-ride sites will have around 2,000 cars parked at them. That’s a significant number – if those cars were formed into a single-file queue it would be more than long enough to link the...

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