As the sales get into full swing, angry motorists are demanding to know why York has stopped providing car parking space availability information?
Click to access “live” parking and travel information
Until 2011, anyone could access the Councils web site and see how many spaces were unoccupied at each car park.
That information has now disappeared although other Councils still provide the service.
The information isn’t even provided for York’s showcase Park and Ride sites
Today car parks like Castle were full but the Council’s travel service hasn’t bothered to use its “twitter” feed to update potential users.
Signs on the approach roads to the City centre, which indicate space availability, are also unreliable, so many motorists are driving round and round looking for spaces.
This increases pollution and congestion on City centre roads.
Sadly it is another example of new technology providing information that is less useful than what was available a decade ago.