PARK AND RIDE

Park and Ride enables people to combine car and bus journeys, letting the bus take them the final leg of their journey, with no need to worry about city centre car parking.

Nestrans has commissioned a study to look at future options for the development of Park and Ride in the region, which reported in December 2006 and will help guide the future development of Park and Ride.

The north east has led the way in the development of bus-based Park and Rides in Scotland. The first Park and Ride site in the region opened in 1994 at Bridge of Don and has since been joined by sites at Kingswells and Ellon. Construction of a further 4 sites is hoped to commence next year. These will be at strategic locations, with 3 close to proposed junctions with the Western Peripheral Route, on the A96 at Chapelbrae and A947 to the north-west of the city, on the A90 south of Aberdeen, and a further site on the A93 by Banchory.

Together these will provide an additional 2,650 parking spaces and will link to improved bus services and passenger facilities. Park and Ride facilities are also being expanded at Inverurie rail station.