Norwich Park and Ride is a park and ride bus service in the city of Norwich, East Anglia. The first of the park and rides was opened in the early 1990s at Norwich International Airport in Hellesdon, while the sixth (and currently final) site was opened in Thickthorn in 2005. With the addition of the final site, the Norwich Park and Ride became the largest park and ride services in the United Kingdom, and provided the scheme with over 5000 permanent car parks – at the time the highest number for a park and ride scheme in the country. The scheme has proven to be quite successful, winning the British Parking Association Park and Ride award in 2004, and in the 2006/2007 financial year, 3.3 million people used the service, keeping 940,000 cars out of the city centre.
Read more about Norwich Park And Ride: Thickthorn Park & Ride - Service 601, Harford Park & Ride - Service 602, Airport Park & Ride - Service 603, Costessey Park & Ride - Service 604, Postwick & Sprowston Park & Ride - Services 605 & 606, Description, 2005-2010 Contract, Buses
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“Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his “comb” and “spare shirt,” “leathern breeches” and “gauze cap to keep off gnats,” with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Thou and I
Have thirty miles to ride yet ere dinner-time.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)