A park and ride scheme which transports hospital staff to work is to be scrapped because of the “significant financial pressures” being placed on a Welsh council. The Carmarthen Park and Ride service currently runs every weekday offering half-hourly trips between Nantyci Showground, the town centre, and Glangwili Hospital.
The shuttle bus runs between 7.30am and 6.25pm and offers people the opportunity to park on the west end of Carmarthen, just off the A40, and travel to the hospital on the other end of the town. The service is used by hospital staff due to long-standing concerns about a lack of parking available at Glangwili Hospital itself – concerns which often result in staff having to park off-site on nearby roads and pavements.
An automatic number plate recognition system was introduced at the hospital in 2019 but was then removed after just three months because staff were left “crying and arguing” among themselves. You can read more about that here.
