4:26pm Monday 8th December 2008
Parking at Steeton and Silsden Station could be improved.
Residents are frustrated that the station car park is full at off-peak times.
Now Craven ward councillor Andrew Mallinson has told Silsden Town Council that £500 has been given by the area co-ordinator’s office to conduct a questionnaire of car park users.
Coun Mallinson said it was thought that commuters from Skipton and beyond drove to the station so they could pay lower fares in a different zone.
But proof was needed to persuade railway bosses to extend the cheaper zone fare price to Skipton in a bid to free up space in the car park for local people.
He said: “The survey will ask where people have come from, where they are travelling to, what times and if they park at the car park.
The town council agreed to donate £100 towards the survey.
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