A parking nightmare around busy Lockerbie train station could finally be eased with the introduction of a large car park. Lockerbie’s train station is the busiest in the region, with more than 230,000 passengers a year taking a train from there before the pandemic.
However, this has led to parking chaos due to commuters parking in surrounding streets and locals complaining about cars being “abandoned”.
Dumfries and Galloway Council now intends on demolishing Tyrone House in Sydney Place and replacing it with a 49 space public car park.
The proposal, which also includes four electric vehicle charging points and a CCTV pole, will see the upgrade of a path running to Bridge Street and across to the train station.
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