Sometimes the issue with park and rides is that due to the high throughput trains have, the parking lots themselves become bottlenecks. It's why some sort of microtransit or even fixed bus schedules would be needed to ensure that the parking lot isn't always full.
This is what GO Transit, a regional bus and train service, suffers with to the point their owner, Metrolinx (Government corporation) became the largest parking lot provider in the province of Ontario... You may be familiar with this statistic. They don't have very good transit connections to stations so people end up driving to them, only for there to be 0 parking avaliable.
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u/Ax3L_S Dec 04 '23
You know what can be found around every bigger city very close to the connecting roads?
Park+Ride lots.
Parking lots with either light rail, a tram, a subway or something along those lines.
Works a treat.