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New Parking Information

New electronic signage to help motorists in Dundee find available car parking spaces has been officially switched on.

The signs provide information about the number of available spaces in 12 car parks around the city's inner ring road and is the result of funding from the Tayside and Central Scotland Transport Partnership (TACTRAN).

The up-dated signage gives "live" information of major car park occupancy which will help reduce unnecessary traffic going round looking for a parking space.

City council planning and transport convener, and TACTRAN chair Councillor Fraser Macpherson, who was at the "switch-on" of the new signs with TACTRAN director Eric Guthrie, said: "There were 12 information signs installed about a decade ago and they have now been replaced by 23 new signs at strategic points along the inner ring road.

"They will help motorists by providing them with information about the availability of spaces in the major car parks around the city centre and there is also improved directional signage to ensure direct links between the inner ring road and adjacent main car parks.

"As well as helping motorists find a parking space more easily, the new information system will contribute to TACTRAN's Regional Transport Strategy objectives by helping to reduce city centre traffic congestion, improving air quality and assisting public transport operation through more efficient management of traffic using the city's transport network."

The sign legends have been improved with LED displays of the number of available spaces at the nearest car park as well as the cumulative number of spaces should a motorist continue along the ring road.

The system works by detecting vehicular movement at car park entrances and exits, with the information relayed by radio signal from the car park to a control centre at Tayside House. The information is then relayed to the information signs.