A new park and ride site could be created at a busy Lancashire station.
Council officials are looking into merging two car parks next to Leyland railway station to create a single new facility.
South Ribble Council owns a car park at Station Approach and train operator Northern Rail has a 60-space free car park. Now discussions are taking place to turn the two sites into long-stay pay and display car parks with new spaces created to cope with demand from passengers.
The council also hopes to apply for external funding to improve the facilities at the two stations, from the European-funded Civitas initiative.
>> Park and ride farce continues>> Search continues for park and ride zoneCoun Jim Breakell, cabinet member for street scene services at South Ribble Council, said: "We are keen to find a way to improve car parking facilities at Leyland railway station, which we hope would provide an incentive for people to park and ride.
"We are currently investigating whether it would be possible to take over the management of Northern Rail's car park. If this went ahead, we would look to obtain external funding that could be spent on improving and updating car parking facilities at the station."
More spaces would also take the pressure off residents in nearby Moss Lane and Bow Brook Road, who complain about station users parking outside their homes. Charges were introduced at Station Approach in 2004 following a review of car parking.
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