In message , at 21:34:51 on
Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Paul Corfield remarked:
Oxford P&R seems pretty well patronised (the car parks and the buses).

Lots of people over a barrel, I'm afraid.

What's the alternative? Massive, choking traffic jams or demolishing
tracts of the City Centre to create massive car parks?

Work/shop/study somewhere else. That's what I did (shopped in Henley,
Thame and High Wycombe rather than Oxford, when I lived around those
parts).

Just so you could use a car and avoid using a P&R service? How odd.

The P&R service doesn't avoid using a car, you have to drive to the
"parking" bit! The reason for shopping somewhere else is to avoid the
wasted half hour each way between the P&R and the City Centre.

Why do all that when there's eg a large John Lewis with its own car park
off the M40 at High Wycombe, and a Waitrose in Thame?

What is wrong with using a bus?

From my village it was one bus an hour (which didn't always turn up)
that took the best part of an hour to get to Oxford. I think there was
one bus a week to Henley. So a distress purchase.
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Roland Perry