An Olympic Effort: Exploring Park Active

There may not be many Olympians amongst the parking community but fear not, we can do something just as amazing and positive for our wellbeing.

Create a Park Active car park! Car parks that are walkable or cyclable to popular destinations are ideal. It’s easy and free to do as all the resources have been created already. 

The top 7 benefits when turning car parks into Park Active one:

1. Improves health and wellbeing: encourages people to walk or cycle after parking.

2. Reduces congestion: helps reduce congestion in city centres by encouraging the use of outer town car parks and active travel modes for the remainder of the journey.

3. Lowers carbon emissions: reduces reliance on cars for the entire journey and reduces emissions, supporting environmental goals such as becoming a carbon-neutral city.

4. Saves time: avoids being stuck in traffic queues getting into the town or city.

5. Cost savings: Using Park Active car parks can lower travel costs, as these car parks can offer discounted parking tariffs.

6. Supports the local economy: it can free up central parking spaces for short-stay shoppers and blue badge holders, potentially increasing foot traffic to local businesses.

7. Rewards and incentives: Loyalty systems could reward car park users for logging their active travel journeys, which can be spent at local businesses or donated to charity.

Play your part in tackling the environmental impact of driving by helping to reduce congestion, pollution, and freeing up space for pedestrians, and blue badge holders.

We can all be Olympians in our fields of expertise, with a bit of effort of course.

Make your car park Park Active today here.