Yate Park and Ride is a

park and ride A park and ride, also known as incentive parking or a commuter lot, is a parking lot with public transport connections that allows commuters and other people heading to city centres to leave their vehicles and transfer to a bus, Rail transport, r ...

facility located off the

A432 road The A432 is a road running from Bristol to Old Sodbury. The road is mostly single carriageway with one lane each way, with a short dual carriageway section in the east of Yate. History The A432 was originally classified in 1922 and the route h ...

on the edge of

Yate Yate is a town and civil parish in South Gloucestershire, England. It lies just to the southwest of the Cotswolds, Cotswold Hills and is northeast of Bristol and from Bath, Somerset, Bath. Developing from a small village into a town from t ...

History

Planning permission was approved in November 2020. It was funded by the

West of England Combined Authority The West of England Combined Authority (WECA), branded as the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority, is a combined authority within the West of England combined authority area, consisting of the local authority areas of Bristol, South G ...

. Construction began in March 2021. The facility opened on 7 February 2022. No new bus routes were created for the park and ride, but several existing routes call at the facility.

Facilities

The park and ride has 198 spaces for cars and 46 spaces for bikes.

References

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