Easing Congestion
Preserving Truro’s historic city centre
The eastern park and ride is a key part of the Truro transport strategy which planned to remove 15% of inbound traffic from the north and east of Truro, significantly reducing congestion and journey times. Truro’s historic narrow streets were not designed to accommodate the ever-increasing number of residents and commuters, and so Cornwall Council developed an integrated transport scheme to help ease the crowding. This scheme began with the successful park and ride facility in Langarth on the city’s outskirts and grew to the development of Truro Eastern District Centre Park and Ride.
Cormac delivered £17million works on this project comprising of:
- Design and Construction of a new Park and Ride facility
- Design and construction of an integrated terminus hub building
- 1,379 parking spaces within retaining structures, coach park, decked parking structure, footways, street lighting, CCTV, signage and electric car charging points
- Upgrading of the A390/A39 Union Hill Junction
- Pedestrian and cycle access measures
- Bus priority measures on the A39 Tregolls Road to improve journey time reliability to/from Truro city and beyond;
- New junctions to the site from A390 & A39 to intercept traffic heading into Truro and accommodate pedestrians and cyclists.
- Extensive hard and soft landscaping, sustainable drainage system and habitat creation
){kind=icon}
){kind=icon}