An old Dorchester park and Ride sign
PROPOSALS for a park and ride for Dorchester should be dropped from future plans for the area – according to town councillors.
They say the last loss-making scheme failed to work and was closed down despite being subsidised by the previous district council.
Since the pandemic very few office workers, including those employed by the Dorset Council, are coming into the county town to work.
Cllr Andy Canning says that council workers are not now expected to return to Dorchester in large numbers with many continuing to work from home, if only for part of their working week. He told a town council planning meeting on Monday evening that when the last scheme was running council staff were the main users of it, but even then only in small numbers.