B&NES Council has not published survey results as to who uses the Newbridge park and ride. We can only conclude they have not carried out this fundamental background research.Local residents, however, have conducted enquiries into this area. It was found that approximately 50% of park and ride users were commuters from the Twerton area (south west Bath). By simply improving the Twerton bus service, rush hour traffic would be reduced considerably and there would be no need to enlarge the car park.
A substantial number of car park users take advantage of free parking, without using the park and ride bus; they fish, use the nearby cycle track to Bristol and engage in other leisure pursuits. Another major group are local residents as the park and ride bus is significantly cheaper than the regular bus service.
Improving the existing bus service would encourage more people to use public transport, this in turn, would ease congestion in line with the Council’s stated aims.
End result = happy commuters, residents and environment.
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loads of RUH staff use the Park & Ride and walk up to the hospital because there is no room on the hospital site or the surrounding streets
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