London commuters to face Thornhill parking charge (From Oxford Mail)
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London commuters to face Thornhill parking charge
6:19pm Thursday 11th February 2010 in
COMMUTERS using Thornhill park-and-ride to take buses to London, Heathrow and Gatwick could soon be charged.
Oxfordshire County Council is considering introducing a charge to pay for the rising costs of running the site after a 540-space expansion, estimated to cost between £3-4m.
The 850-space car park is often full to capacity by 9.30am most weekdays.
The council’s cabinet member for growth and infrastructure, Ian Hudspeth, said: “Thornhill is unique among Oxford’s park-and-ride sites in terms of the high demand for travel into London. While this has become an important feature of the site, our priority remains to protect core use for travel into Oxford.
“Introducing a small fee for motorists travelling to other destinations represents the most viable option.”
Comments(23)
CURRYMAD
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6:47pm Thu 11 Feb 10
Get real OCC.
ReasonableGuy
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6:54pm Thu 11 Feb 10
I wonder also how will they control who parks to go to Oxford and who parks to go to London. That's going to be a tricky one!
PaulSte
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6:56pm Thu 11 Feb 10
CURRYMAD wrote:You are quite obviously the one with no brains currymad. Either that or you simply cannot read. Didn't you see this part of the article? "after a 540-space expansion, estimated to cost between £3-4m". Or were you so busy with your predictable stampede to the 'moan about the council' trough that you missed it?
Why the hell don't they just make it bigger. It is full by about 7.30am. Has no one at the OCC got any brains. The P&R is a really good service but it is half a service as you can ride buy cannot park. Get real OCC.
CURRYMAD
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6:58pm Thu 11 Feb 10
CURRYMAD
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6:58pm Thu 11 Feb 10
CURRYMAD
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7:02pm Thu 11 Feb 10
PaulSte
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8:01pm Thu 11 Feb 10
CURRYMAD wrote:does that mean you acknowledge you were criticising unfairly and hadn't read the piece properly? ie the park and ride IS being expande
PaulSt, would look nice in a Red hat or maybe Pink !!!!! Your in a bad mood tonight !!
Chilaili
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9:54pm Thu 11 Feb 10
ick bus just because they're meeting someone? Or are they going to be charged too?
Pter mcvey
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11:07pm Thu 11 Feb 10
PaulSte wrote:Now, Now Ladies...
CURRYMAD wrote: PaulSt, would look nice in a Red hat or maybe Pink !!!!! Your in a bad mood tonight !!does that mean you acknowledge you were criticising unfairly and hadn't read the piece properly? ie the park and ride IS being expande
LadyPenelope
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9:09am Fri 12 Feb 10
The article doesn't make this clear.
EB
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9:57am Fri 12 Feb 10
It's yet another bonkers idea from OCC which will cost us all a load of money. Fare comment?
Chris_SCG
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10:04am Fri 12 Feb 10
Fat boy
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10:25am Fri 12 Feb 10
get out of your cars they preach, get onto buses they preach. Only make sure you do it before 9:30 because we can't provide any parking spaces for you after that. Oh and by the way we are going to charge you for doing what we told you to do.
I hate this stinking rotten city and it's stinking rotten administrators.
PU30
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12:58pm Fri 12 Feb 10
Andrew:Oxford
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1:59pm Fri 12 Feb 10
PU30
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2:31pm Fri 12 Feb 10
LadyPenelope
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2:38pm Fri 12 Feb 10
PU30 wrote:Great idea, but at what cost? Those barriers cost a fortune, plus convincing all the bus companies to issue tokens... The parking charge for London bound people would be huge!
Before the County Council spends thousands on Consultants here’s the solution: Put barriers on the exits which are opened by inserting a token. All those that board a Bus for the City get given a token. Those going in the other direction don’t. Have a machine “selling” the token for those without to purchase......
Andrew:Oxford
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7:21pm Fri 12 Feb 10
Pierre My
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5:14am Sun 14 Feb 10
LadyPenelope wrote:It was finished a couple of years ago, you should venture out of your lovely hamlet of Little Rollright a wee bit more often, and see what happens in the big city x
Has this 540 space extention actually been built yet, or is it about to be built? The article doesn't make this clear.
LadyPenelope
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8:35am Mon 15 Feb 10
Pierre My wrote:Why would I use the Park and Ride when I lived in the city?
LadyPenelope wrote: Has this 540 space extention actually been built yet, or is it about to be built? The article doesn't make this clear.It was finished a couple of years ago, you should venture out of your lovely hamlet of Little Rollright a wee bit more often, and see what happens in the big city x
Why are you so rude and judgemental?
saysme
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3:45pm Wed 17 Feb 10
I agree it is needed because Thornhill is full far too early but would rather it is paid for by those that use it than the taxpayer. I'm all for the idea as long as they can make it work.
Phian
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4:35pm Wed 17 Feb 10
I suspect the use of Thornhill for London commuters has far exceeded expectations.
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Quentin Walker says...
6:31pm Thu 11 Feb 10
I wonder what he considers to be 'a small fee', because if it is to be a 'small fee' as is generally understood by the term, then it won't be viable to collect it.