Milton Keynes Council is running a promotional scheme, starting on Monday 24th November 2008, to encourage Christmas shoppers to ‘Park & Walk’. The scheme will be launched by the Mayor on Monday 24th November and there will be manned stands in the shopping centre by door number 1 (outside Marks and Spencer’s and Costa) on Thursday 27th November and Friday 5th December, giving out free mince pies and leaflets explaining the promotion.
There are several benefits to parking farther away and walking;
- The extra exercise burns calories (walking burns 6 calories per minute) which means that extra indulgences can be had over the festive period. To see the calories you could burn and festive treat equivalents click here - Christmas Park and Walk Leaflet.
- The parking areas we are recommending are those that surveys have shown to be under utilised, meaning that there is more chance of finding an available parking space easily (although it should be noted that parking becomes extremely pressurised the closer to Christmas we get and it becomes increasingly difficult to find an available space throughout CMK). To see maps displaying information taken from the car park surveys showing where you are most likely to find an available parking space either mid-week or on the weekend click here - Finding Available Parking Spaces.
- Reducing the number of vehicles driving around searching for a parking space (by directing people to where they are most likely to find one) reduces traffic congestion and has environmental benefits.
The Employee Park and Walk Scheme has been running successfully for several months. For details of this scheme which gives distances, time taken and calories burned from under utilised parking areas (mid-week) to main places of employment in CMK please click on the link here -
Park and Walk.Milton Keynes Council Parking Home Page
