According to their policies, the Welsh Assembly Government care about how their staff get to work. All office sites are required to be within ten minutes walk of a station, there are bike-to-work and season ticket schemes…
But when push comes to shove, it turns out that they’re quite happy to pay through the nose to provide parking. As the South Wales Echo reports, the Assembly spent £129,661 on parking permits for staff at Ty Hywel to use a nearby public multi-storey (at an average cost of £280 per permit). What’s more, of the 63% of permit holders for which the Assembly has addresses, around 35% live within three miles, a radius that doesn’t even extend into Cardiff’s suburbs.
Between the Butetown shuttle,the BayCar bus service and the Taff Trail cycle route, it’s not exactly hard for those living in Cardiff to get to the Senedd. So maybe it’s time for the Assembly to stop “meeting demand” and “actively encourag[ing] staff to use the greenest and healthiest options” and actually do something about it?
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