Balfour Beatty has been appointed to deliver the first phase of the £22.7 million Access York project, which received the green light from the Department for Transport in March.

The scheme, which is one of the largest single investments in York’s transport infrastructure, involves the development of two park and ride sites on the outskirts of the city.

Congestion levels along the routes into the city centre will be cut by increasing the parking capacity to 1,100 vehicles at Askham Bar Park and Ride and building a new 600-vehicle facility at Poppleton Bar.
Junctions to the new sites will be provided off the A59 and A1036 and major improvements to the A59/A1237 roundabout will be delivered as part of the works, which will run for a total of 54 weeks from May 2013 through to May 2014.

For more information about the new Park & Ride sites please visit www.york.gov.uk/parkandride http://www.york.gov.uk/parkandride