Olympics park and ride scheme scrapped

The £19million Windsor park and ride scheme would have been built at South Field, between Eton and Eton Wick, a greenbelt site owned by Eton College.

While one major aim was to ease congestion in Windsor, the 900-space development would also serve many of the 30,000 expected to visit Dorney Lake during the games.

More than 1,100 residents opposed the plans, claiming it would ruin lives, damage the environment and bring huge traffic problems and crime.

About 200 people squeezed into a Royal Borough cabinet meeting at the Thames Valley Athletics Club, off Pococks Lane, last night.

After a string of passionate speeches, and with no alternative plan, the cabinet unanimously voted to throw out the scheme.

Councillor Colin Rayner, member for highways, transport and the environment, said the business case was 'unsound'.

The council also said funding for the project, applied for by the previous Liberal Democrat administration, had not been secured and that the Olympic Development Agency would only spend money inside venues anyway.

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