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MAKING CAR SHARING AND CAR CLUBS WORK CASE STUDY SUMMARIES 2.35 Both interviewees already used a mix of transport options including the bus. Other General Issues 2.36 The Coordinator thought that most companies wait until the parking problems get really bad before they take any action. His advice would be: act early, rather than waiting until the problem is overwhelming and you have to rush to put a quick fix in place. 2.37 However, if there are no parking and congestion problems in an area, it would be very difficult to persuade businesses to take part in travel planning initiatives. The only other motivating factor identified at Barclaycard was the explicit inclusion of travel planning in ISO 14001. 2.38 Support for car sharing from national Government would help, especially to remove some of the tax disincentives. Introduction of high occupancy vehicle lanes would act as a further incentive for car sharing. 2.39 There is a need to change people’s perception of car sharing. People need to realise they do not need to car share five days a week to solve the problem; if everyone shared once a week things would be much improved. Final V1.1, Dec. 2004 - 12 -
MAKING CAR SHARING AND CAR CLUBS WORK CASE STUDY SUMMARIES 3 GCHQ General Background 3.1 Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is an intelligence and security organisation. A Civil Service Department, it reports to the Foreign Secretary and works closely with the UK’s other intelligence agencies (commonly known as MI5 and MI6). It’s primary customers are the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and law enforcement authorities, but it also serves a wide range of other Government departments. The GCHQ web site summarises it’s key areas of work: ‘We provide information to support Government decision making in the fields of national security, military operations and law enforcement. The intelligence we provide is at the heart of the struggle against terrorism and also contributes to the prevention of serious crime… We help keep Government communication and information systems safe from hackers and other threats. We also help those responsible for the UK’s critical national infrastructure (power, water, communications, etc.) keep their networks safe from interference and disruption’. 3.2 GCHQ has recently completed consolidating its 4,500 staff in a purpose-designed facility to the west of Cheltenham city centre. Formally staff were split on two sites, four miles apart in the city. The new building, nick-named the ‘doughnut’ owing to its shape, has been constructed on a brown-field site. The space constraints of the site, coupled with a parking space allowances for new developments imposed by the Government Office for the South West (one space for each 42 square foot of useable building space), has led to a significant interim cut in the volume of car parking available to GCHQ staff. The two old sites provided around 3,400 spaces between them. During the construction period at the new site there are approximately 1,800 spaces, which will rise to 2,890 at the end of the construction period in May 2005. An aerial view of the ‘doughnut’ Final V1.1, Dec. 2004 - 13 -
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