(12 Dec 2018, 4:49 pm)BusLoverMum wrote It's already about £8 for a few hours in Eldon Square car park , so if that's not enough to encourage local people to use public transport, I don't know what would be.
But people taking the car instead of the bus are going to be stuck in the exact same traffic. Last time I went into Newcastle by car, with husband, it took us almost half an hour to get off the Felling bypass and over the Tyne Bridge. Why? Because there had been yet another power failure on the Metro, that morning, that's why.
Compared to the equivalent bus fare for me and two kids, the car park is cheaper.
I'm traveling within T&W entirely too.
Add in Mrs Constanopolous and the equivalent bus fare is more than twice as much as the car park - unless we are savvy enough to know about any family type tickets. And then it's not quite double the price of the car park.