IS the council actively trying to discourage or encourage traffic into the city? It has been suggested that the Clarence Street coach park could be banished out to a Park and Ride site which would fit in with the council's advocacy of Park and Ride. Whereas the council's own proposal is that part of Union Street car park could be used which would make better use of a car park that has seen a big fall in usage since the Monk's Cross shopping centre opened.
With the council's recent concern about sufficient car parking facilities in the Coppergate II proposal and then allowing the closure of the Tanner Row car park this leaves one perplexed.
A planning application for the redevelopment of the Skeldergate car park, a prime development site, could show what the transport strategy is. With recent planning decisions, it seems to be either a case of cars bad, coaches good or just one of expediency.
Richard Lamb,
Greystoke Road,
York.
Updated: 12:34 Thursday, March 22, 2001
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