ALL THE PARK AND RIDE OFFICERS/MEMBERS NEED A NON-VIOLENT BOMB PUT UNDER THEM!
Please, can all you people who want to promote Shrewsbury businesses unite to do something about Park and Ride?
Thank you for writing. Below is the email (no reply from Liz, as yet) I wrote after my visit to your traffic choked town on Wednesday. Choc-a-bloc Frankwell car park but pretty empty P&R car parks - and most inadequate signage and incentives for the drivers who do know where they are to use them! And I thought that your County Council was short of money. It is wasted on P&R. And, on Highway head office staff being paid but no money for the subcontractor to actually buy tarmac to put in the long troughs of water where there is meant to be a road in Hinton Lane, near Pontesbury, which my family uses on their bikes and on foot!
Always lots of empty spaces at Park & Ride car parks!
Subject: Re: Park and Ride Signage Query
To: Liz Keirle <l.keirle@shropshire-chamber.
Dear Liz
Thanks so much for writing.
I am very concerned about the value for money and the impacts on Climate and FINITE gas/oil reserves that the county's Park and Ride sites are worsening instead of helping. I am concerned that vehicles still dominate the centre of Shrewsbury from Monday to Friday - and Saturdays' pedestrianisation has never been extended. Is this correct because I don't visit Shrewsbury often? I live in Halesowen and it is my daughter's family who live near Pontesbury that brings my wife and I into your attractive town - apart from the Climate worsening traffic in the town centre. Gloucester and Halesowen do much better with traffic control.
On the A5, the Meole Brace P&R is called both by that name and as Shrewsbury P&R. I did not check on Wednesday if, after all these years, the correct signs are finally in place. I somehow doubt it. It would be wonderful if I was wrong!
What ls the point of P&R if it cannot be found by drivers new to Shrewsbury wanting to do the right thing? As I did on the first occasion, before I discovered the new site, they will drive around looking for the non-existent signs and adding to the congestion, wasting fuel, time and getting exasperated. What a dreadful way to welcome visitors, tourists to your town - getting them lost!
Meole Brace P&R is NOT at Meole Brace Retail Park as some drivers new to Shrewsbury are likely to think. In recent years, you go via a housing estate and both are hidden away from the A5 and A49/Hereford Road by woodland. Therefore, signs at every turn are essential. Signs in ALL the right places really are needed to avoid guessing and being led on a wild goose chase! Are they now in place? You get to it via Beagle Road.
QUESTIONS
I see little-used P&R buses and a full Frankwell car park.
Would more frequent minibuses from P&R sites help to keep cars out of Shrewsbury?
What is the subsidy per person that the County Council is paying?
What is the impact on congestion/air pollution/Climate in Shrewsbury?
What can be done to make P&R more popular?
What is the point of them if they are not used?
Why is my old person's fare-free English bus pass not valid on P&R buses?
Is it essential that there be a hefty financial inducement and effective publicity to use P&R instead of driving into town?
Would Fare-Free Public Transport for all ages help as seen in other places in Western Europe?
What are the statistics for ALL the P&R sites in Shropshire?
Shrewsbury may be one of the top ten tourist attractions in the UK. Visitors will be put off Shrewsbury by useless P&R sites when they could be part of weaning us off our present over-dependence on cars at this time of depleting oil/gas reserves and a deepening Climate Emergency.
Please reply and put me right over what is going wrong/right in Shrewsbury and Telford P&R sites.
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