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Upgrade to overspill car park at Elland Road park and ride
3 February 2016
With the existing 425-space car park frequently being
filled to capacity, increasing numbers of passengers have been using an
unmade-up area as an overflow car park. To improve conditions for those
people, West Yorkshire Combined Authority has worked with Leeds City
Council to fund a new, surfaced overspill car park with over 100 marked
out spaces, floodlighting, CCTV coverage and pedestrian access point.
Planned expansion
Cllr Keith Wakefield, Chair of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Transport Committee said: “Elland Road Park and Ride has proved so
popular with people travelling into Leeds that we have agreed an
expansion plan that will include 375 additional spaces and a new, heated
customer waiting facility.
“As work on that extension is due to
start in the spring with completion expected by autumn this year, we
wanted to provide an interim improvement for the increasing numbers of
people now having to use the overspill car park. When it opens on
Wednesday those people will be able to park in the 100-plus clearly
marked bays on a new, mud-free surface.
“I have been pleased to
see the ongoing growth in numbers of people using the Park & Ride
because 500 or more cars are being parked Elland Road Monday to Friday
rather than being driven into the city centre is helping to reduce
traffic in in Leeds and the cost of congestion to businesses in the
city.”
High demand
Councillor Richard Lewis, Leeds City Council’s executive member for
regeneration, transport and planning said:“Elland Road was the first
scheme of this type in Leeds, so it’s great to see it doing well.
“Demand
has been so high that people are regularly parking at the overflow
site, so it was important that we provided an overflow parking area as
an interim measure until the expansion opens in autumn.
“In the
light of the Elland Road scheme’s success we are also developing a new,
1,000-space park and ride at Temple Green in east Leeds through West
Yorkshire Combined Authority’s £1bn Growth Deal Transport Fund.”
Working in partnership
Paul Turner, Head of Commercial for First West Yorkshire said: "This
is great news for new and existing users of the Elland Road
Park & Ride. First Bus is delighted to be working in partnership with
the Combined Authority and Leeds City Council in providing fast,
frequent and great value services that I'm sure will continue to attract
more customers"
When it opens in the autumn, the expanded
Elland Road Park and Ride will have 375 extra parking spaces and new
waiting area with ticket machines, real-time information, toilets and
baby changing facilities. The new, fully lit parking area will have CCTV
coverage and will include more spaces for electrical vehicle charging
as well.
Launched in June 2014, Elland Road Park and Ride is
open Monday to Saturday (except on Saturday Match Days) from 7am to
9.15pm with buses running every 10 minutes until 7pm. Tickets for the
10-minute journey to and from the city centre cost from just £2.70 per
day. Customers can make multiple journeys on each Adult Day Ticket and
can take up to three children up to the age of 16 with them for free.
Services
towards the city centre stop at Meadow Road/Sweet Street Great Wilson
Street and Boar Lane (stop T9) while return journeys leave from Boar
lane stopping at Great Wilson Street on the way back to Elland Road.
Find out more about Elland Road Park & Ride
