Do you think the bus scheme “Park and ride” will be successful in Nicosia?

15 comments

1. No

2. I think its a good initiative but in this country if you want people to let go of their cars you need to close roads and have only buses run through them. Allow trucks that are stocking businesses at certain hours of the day.

3. It COULD be successful but it will take time and effort. Main issue I see with it would be the traffic caused by folks going to and from the PnR parking at GSP, but that could be solved once the frequency is increased and another PnR station is added.

   >But many complain that it causes traffic jams for the rest of the cars that enter the capital city in the morning

   I guess they should suck it up and take the bus instead.

   >change the mentality of Cypriots regarding bus use?

   That’s the goal. The truth is that we are WAY behind everyone else when it comes to public transit (both infrastructure and mentality), and that has to change massively in the next 5 years. At the end of the day, the only way to change people’s mentality on this is to make it more convenient to go around by bus than by car.

4. It can’t service people who get off work after 4pm. Good initiative, dreadful execution. Cyprus in a nutshell

5. Its okay to skip the traffic from gsp to kalispera. But what happens after? Well okay lets say u went to ur work in nicosia. When u finish work it will be hell, stuck in traffic with the bus. Pple will prefer to get stuck in traffic in their own vehicles

6. I love the concept. Here is the official page: https://www.publictransport.com.cy/cms/page/pame-express

7. I think i general people who dont use public transportation can not come up with a good PT idea. I think no-one in ministry of transportation uses buses every day to get to their work. I see it when Nicosia municipality introduces an innovative bus stops with no shadow from sun. As a person who used PT for whole of his life the first time I saw the new design, first idea what that it is a terrible idea for sunny climate. PT is not only buses, it is a whole experience from when you lock your door at home till you get to the office. Each step, how you get to the bus stop, how you feel then you wait the bus, how if your bus trip and everything makes you consider should I use PT or a private car. And my experience in Cyprus says me on each step, that I`d better drive a car. I`d better spend 1 hour in traffic rather when walk 30 mins. But in city like Budapest, highly likely I will walk to office if it takes me 30-60 mins walk

8. It’s a small step in the right direction. Of course it won’t solve the problem by itself

9. PnR doesn’t cause any extra traffic jam. The bus lane is an extra lane that just finished construction. it didn’t close any existing lanes. What it does that “causes traffic jams” is force all those morons that every morning made an illegal extra or even two extra lanes at the Mercedes roundabout exit to follow between the lines, which is a plus in my opinion. Everyone that doesn’t recognise the importance of this program and is against it, is part of the problem.

10. There is no other option but for it to be successful. Our current infastructure can’t handle the increasing number of cars on the road. If we don’t implement a successful park and ride system we are doomed to spend hours and hours in standstill traffic and it will only get worse.

    Adding additional roads does nothing to alleviate traffic problems. Just look at [Houston](https://houston.culturemap.com/media-library/katy-freeway-highway-interstate-10-traffic-traffic-jam-march-2014.jpg?id=31620082&width=2000&height=1500&quality=85&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0). The only way to actually improve the traffic crisis is to implement high-speed, convenient public transportation.

    I was just watching the Climate Town video on parking. One thing I found pretty interesting was that when cars initially started to be mass produced, it was well understood that park and rides were the only sustainable option. Its only because of the automotive lobby that people have normalized the INSANE idea that thousands of people should driving around in the city as opposed to the far more efficient public transportation systems.

    For anyone interested:

    [Parking Laws are Strangling America](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUNXFHpUhu8&t=407s)

11. Good idea in general but the plan (timetable mostly) not that helpful

12. I think it will take a long, long time before we see results from it. Many current adults are far too stuck in the mindset of “go everywhere by car” and there are many xorkatoi who still consider public transportation to be “for the plebes/Pakistani/immigrants/poor people”. But as long as these initiatives continue younger people (who can’t drive yet) will by neccessity use them and that should hopefully lead to a change in public perception towards public transport as a whole. It certainly helps that students studying abroad get to see firsthand what a fully realised public transportarion system looks like and what it could do for the island, but we have a ways to go yet.

13. It should be from 6AM to 7PM or later.

    Busses here are better and this would be great in Nicosia to reduce pollution and parking costs.

    Hope they did think at what time the first ones might show up and what time they leave.

    Or they hope a coworker will drop me off at the edge of the city.

    That might happen on some days but not every day and many wouldn’t take this risk.

14. For PnR to work, they need to involve many more streets and routes. I’d use it if the closest stop to my work wasn’t a 20 minute walk.

15. Great initiative, of course most cypriots stuck in their utopia of personal car will start crying for the extra traffic (there is no extra traffic btw), this is a really small step towards a better transportation system. Ideally, i would say, police giving out fines for cars parked at the side of the road and on sidewalk would help a lot. Also, a more authoritarian way of solving it is make driving license fees as well as the cost to get a driving license more expensive. In case the cypriot still doesn’t learn, raise fuel prices more. But then the whole country will turn against the government so it’s best to make the change siga siga so they don’t get mad.