COUNCILS should look at replacing private parking spaces to allow room for car-sharing strategies to help with Scotland’s green recovery, a leading transport charity has said. CoMoUK, part-funded by Transport Scotland said that local authorities should take a lead in changing commuter habits by introducing car-sharing incentives, saying they should prepare themselves for office-based workers being more likely to work at home in the post-coronavirus era. A decline in full-time office working as a result of the changes in lifestyle brought by Covid-19 is predicted to result in some people no longer needing a car for daily use.
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