The data illustrates the average amount of journey using car into city centre by residents and non-residents between year 1996 to 2005.
Overall, the average numbers of journey by residents using cars decreased as compared to non-residents after the introduction of parking meters into the city centre. Although, the average numbers of journey made by both the local and outsiders dropped after the closing of Westgate Street and Park lane due to traffic.
Getting back to the details, the period where parking meters were not introduce into the city centre (1996 to 1999), the average amount of journey made by residents using cars were highest as compared to the non-residents. Starting with the year 1996, the average number of journey by locals were close to 10000, whereas the outsiders average was just half of it. Over the three years time, locals average journey number stayed nearly same, approximately 9500 at the end of the year 1999. However, there was an rapid growth in the average amount of journey to the city centre by outsiders and it was just over 8000 in the year 1999.
It is also noticeable that, after the introduction of parking meters into the city centre, residents made lesser number of journey using cars into the city centre as compared to the previous years. There was an dramatical drop, from nearly 9500 journey in the year 1999 to just 5000 journey in the year 2000 and over three years the average stayed nearly the same, but it dropped to approximately 4000 in the year 2003 after the closing of Westgate street and Park lane due to traffic and then the average number fluctuated between 5000 to nearly 3500 journey.