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Leicester Park'N'Ride service justified
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• While the special extended Park 'N' Ride service employed by Leicester City Transport during the 1971 pre-Christmas period was not an unqualified success from a bus operator's standpoint, it was by far the most successful in terms of motorists using it, and in terms of the financial returns therefrom.
This claim is made by Mr Leslie Smith, general manager of Leicester City Transport, in the introduction to a new report "Park 'N' Ride — five years' experience", just published by the undertaking. The report covers the period 1966-1971, but owing to demand having exhausted the supplies of an earlier report on the introduction of the experimental service in 1966, the text of that one has been reprinted and is contained in the first part of the new publication.
The latest report concludes that under normal demand conditions, the Park 'N' Ride service is considered valuable enough for the city council to accept the principle that the difference between the marginal costs of operation and receipts should be met from public funds. It also considers that the service, operating from purposebuilt bus and car interchanges, is an essential feature of its Traffic and Transportation Plan submitted to the Department of the Environment.