The commuter belt scheme in Oxfordshire has 850 spaces but no access to the nearby main road

A car park built for £51 million in Oxfordshire is lying empty because a council cannot connect it to the main road.

Planning problems are preventing motorists from using the 19-acre park and ride scheme in Eynsham until funding is secured to link it to the A40.

Aerial photographs show the 850-space site devoid of vehicles, despite its finished glossy tarmac, bus stops and green spaces. All major construction work was finished in January, followed by landscaping last month.

Although the car park could be cut off from the main road until 2027, local authorities have contracts to maintain it every week, cutting the grass and topsoiling and seeding when necessary.

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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
      101·
      3 months ago

      It sounds like British beuraucreacy at work, the contract to build the overpass etc is a different contract to the one to build the car park.

    • GreatAlbatrossAEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      Probably whoever managed to get the contract 10 years ago, knowing full well the effort to change contractors is too massive to ever happen.