 Park and Ride in Manchester
In message <0001HW.C4A90F2000585E06F0407648@news.eclipse.co.u k>, at
15:49:52 on Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Stimpy <stimpy1997ukm> remarked:
>Interestingly, by many standards, the city centre car parks in Oxford aren't
>*that* expensive - certainly no more so than many towns without a P&R. It's
>the differential between town centre parking prices and P&R prices that makes
>P&R work for the locals
It didn't work for me when I lived near Oxford. The main problem was
having to carry *all* your day's shopping around, rather than going back
to the car to dump it off periodically. So P&R works for "window
shoppers" but not people actually wanting to take stuff home.
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Roland Perry |