Park-and-ride making a loss

A council is said to be throwing money ‘in the bin’ by continuing to run a park-and-ride site in Kent.

The Sturry Road service, on the outskirts of Canterbury, causes more pollution than it prevents, and loses almost £30,000 a month, the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) says.

New data shows the park-and-ride ferries passengers — from a daily average of just 89 cars — into the city centre on largely empty diesel buses, which run almost 80 times a day.

Andrew Harvey, a Green Party councillor at Canterbury City Council, said: ‘Effectively we are almost replacing each car with a bus, which is clearly ludicrous.’