Tony Polson wrote:
> wensleydale@pacersplace.org.uk (Neil Williams) wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:49:06 +0100, Tony Polson
>> <docnews2011@> wrote:
>> There is a serious, perhaps even profitable, case for a bus Park and
>> Ride site near Bottle Dump Roundabout into Central Milton Keynes with
>> a dedicated bus lane on the A421. It's one of the areas of worst
>> congestion anywhere in MK in the morning.
>
>
> I think we are talking about the same place.
>
> Coming into MK from the west on the A421, turn right at Bottle Dump
> Roundabout and you will find yourself in Newton Longville. There is a
> huge landfill site there, some of which has been remediated as the
> site of a huge new housing development.
>
> The Newton Longville Park and Ride Station project was put forward to
> serve that future housing estate and act as a park and ride for people
> coming in to MK from Buckingham and points west on the A421. But I
> believe it was intended to be a railway park and ride rather than one
> using buses.
>
> Turn it into a bus park and ride and it begins to make sense.
>
Well yes. A railway park and ride is going to dump its passengers a good
15 minutes walk from the shopping centre which is fine with no bags on a
good day, but if they are laden with shopping or its raining then it
means catching a bus. Why not get a bus all the way?
As for congestion in MK - it makes me laugh how it's always advertised
as a congestion free place. It is, provided you don't travel at rush
hour. Pretty much like anywhere else in the country, then.