Footes Lane users not on board with park and ride idea
Tuesday 25th October 2011, 2:29PM BST.
Sara Mortimer and mum Karen at the Footes Lane car park. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 1191073)
FORCING islanders to buy a bus ticket to use the Footes Lane car park is wrong and unfair, users have said.
As part of the its traffic strategy report, Environment recommended that the car park could be reserved solely for park and ride – meaning drivers leaving their cars there would have to display a bus ticket.
Those using the Footes Lane facilities on Saturday, either for hockey or football, were against the scheme.
Sara Mortimer, 36, parked in the car park to watch Guernsey FC’s match against Farleigh Rovers.
‘I don’t know where else we would park,’ she said.
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How about getting the bus there?
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Maybe an idea for weekdays.
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So you park your car, get on the bus, get a ticket, then go back to your car to display said ticket, then get back on the bus?!
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Not too sure about the suggested new plans for Footes Lane but as frequent visitors to Guernsey we find finding the Footes Lane ‘Park and Ride’ a bit of pain with all of one way systems and no entrys within the town centre – as such we have only used it on one occasion.I have also noticed that during the evening ‘rush hour’the high amount of home-going traffic travelling to the west of the island. Would it therefore help (because of its easily found location)islanders and vistors alike, to have a park and ride situated at the airport utilising the buses into town thereby relieving town centre traffic and car parks?
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