Lancashire taxpayers will be hit in the pocket if plans for a park and ride alongside the Heysham M6 Link go ahead, it was claimed.
The Evening Post revealed last month that Government transport chiefs recommended that County Hall drop the park and ride from its bid for funding for the controversial link road, meaning Lancashire County Council will have to find the cash itself if
it wants to press ahead.
And the Department for Transport has told LCC it is up to them to decide what to do about the traffic chaos in Lancaster and Morecambe – and stump up the money to solve it.
David Gate, chairman of Transport Solutions, said: "The Government will not pay for the park and ride because they do not consider it to be an integral part of the massive road scheme – that's an estimated £3.5m that Lancashire's taxpayers will have to find.
"It is also clear the Government will not be funding any of the new proposals from the Vision Board's eagerly-awaited Integrated Transport Study or measures advanced by Geraldine Smith MP and the Chamber of Commerce, so there is no money for park and ride, a one- way system review, improved public transport or a bridge from Morecambe to Lancaster Luneside."
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