The park-and-ride system implemented for the group stages of the ICC T20 World Cup at Kensington Oval has garnered praise among private transit owners, though calls have been made for improvements ahead of future major events.Adrian Bayley, former head of the Bridgetown Port Taxi Co-Op Society Ltd and Transport Authority Board member, spoke with Barbados TODAY after recent discussions with the tournament’s local organising committee, along with director of the Barbados Transport Authority Ruth Holder and chief executive officer of the Transport Board Fabian Wharton, about the system’s benefits and drawbacks.“We were asked to look at putting in a proper system to ease the congestion around Kensington [Oval],” said Bayley. “Over the last few years once England came into Barbados for a cricketing series, with the large number of people who come down from Great Britain, it became a major bottleneck to get into and from Kensington.”The solution saw the Central Purchasing Unit utilised as a parking area for taxis servicing the cricket ground.“That made a massive difference in the flow of traffic in and out of Kensington,” Bayley explained.
