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Norwich (moved from charging per car to per person in 2009)
“There has been a decline in park and ride usage in the last two years
Factors affecting are:-
· Increased parking provision in the city centre with a new multi story car park opening.
· Different parking pricing policy in the city centre with retailers encouraging short term afternoon parking with very cheap prices. £1.50 after 3.30pm.
· The City Council owning about 1/3 of the car parks and needing to encourage usage to protect their revenue stream. NATS and strategy to tariff on medium / long stay car parks to support P&R. Some undermining of policy as not unitary authority status in Norwich. County responsible for on street and P&R only.
· A large number of development sites being used for cheap all day parking before development starts.
· The recession, it would appear patronage across all city centre car parks has declined this year at a similar level to our experience. 5-6 % and turnover per space down up to 20% on some private short stay sites.
· City centre employers relocating to out of town business parks.
· In June 2009 we changed to pay per person on 5 sites and the last one changed on 31/08/09. Loss of patronage from car sharers has been experienced though we have seen some increase in single occupancy usage.”
Norwich Passengers
Oct 2006 to Sep 08 |
Oct 2007 to Sep 08 |
Change from Oct 06/08 |
Oct 2008 to Sep 09 |
Change from Oct 07/08 |
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Total up to Sep |
3226673 |
2916567 |
-9.61% |
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Total Jan to Sep |
2431211 |
2268565 |
-6.69% |
2023084 |
-10.82% |
The nine month period up to and including September 2009 showed a reduction of 10.82% in the number of passengers, compared to the same period in 2008. There was a 9.61% reduction in the number of passengers in October 2008 to Sep 2009 compared to the previous year. Therefore the number of passengers has fallen in both years.
Norwich |
Vehicles |
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Oct 2006 to Sep 07 |
Oct 2007 to Sep 08 |
Change from Oct 06/07 |
Oct 2008 to Sep 09 |
Change from Oct 07/08 |
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Total up to Sep |
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871102 |
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840914 |
-3.47% |
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Total Jan to Sep |
632873 |
610412 |
-3.55% |
589758 |
-3.38% |
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The nine month period up to and including September 2009 showed a reduction of 3.38% in the number of vehicles compared to the same period in 2008, and a 3.55% reduction in the previous year. There was a 3.47% reduction in the number of vehicles in the year from October 2008 compared to October 2007. Therefore there continues to be a consistent rate in the reduction in the number of vehicles parking for Park and Ride in Norwich.