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MAKING CAR SHARING AND CAR CLUBS WORKCASE STUDY SUMMARIES2.35 Both interviewees already used a mix of transport options including the bus.Other General Issues2.36 The Coordinator thought that most companies wait until the parking problems get really badbefore they take any action. His advice would be: act early, rather than waiting until theproblem is overwhelming and you have to rush to put a quick fix in place.2.37 However, if there are no parking and congestion problems in an area, it would be verydifficult to persuade businesses to take part in travel planning initiatives. The only othermotivating factor identified at Barclaycard was the explicit inclusion of travel planning in ISO14001.2.38 Support for car sharing from national Government would help, especially to remove some ofthe tax disincentives. Introduction of high occupancy vehicle lanes would act as a furtherincentive for car sharing.2.39 There is a need to change people’s perception of car sharing. People need to realise they donot need to car share five days a week to solve the problem; if everyone shared once aweek things would be much improved.Final V1.1, Dec. 2004 - 12 -
MAKING CAR SHARING AND CAR CLUBS WORKCASE STUDY SUMMARIES3 GCHQGeneral Background3.1 Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is an intelligence and securityorganisation. A Civil Service Department, it reports to the Foreign Secretary and worksclosely with the UK’s other intelligence agencies (commonly known as MI5 and MI6). It’sprimary customers are the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office andlaw enforcement authorities, but it also serves a wide range of other Governmentdepartments. The GCHQ web site summarises it’s key areas of work: ‘We provideinformation to support Government decision making in the fields of national security, militaryoperations and law enforcement. The intelligence we provide is at the heart of the struggleagainst terrorism and also contributes to the prevention of serious crime… We help keepGovernment communication and information systems safe from hackers and other threats.We also help those responsible for the UK’s critical national infrastructure (power, water,communications, etc.) keep their networks safe from interference and disruption’.3.2 GCHQ has recently completed consolidating its 4,500 staff in a purpose-designed facility tothe west of Cheltenham city centre. Formally staff were split on two sites, four miles apart inthe city. The new building, nick-named the ‘doughnut’ owing to its shape, has beenconstructed on a brown-field site. The space constraints of the site, coupled with a parkingspace allowances for new developments imposed by the Government Office for the SouthWest (one space for each 42 square foot of useable building space), has led to a significantinterim cut in the volume of car parking available to GCHQ staff. The two old sites providedaround 3,400 spaces between them. During the construction period at the new site there areapproximately 1,800 spaces, which will rise to 2,890 at the end of the construction period inMay 2005.An aerial view of the ‘doughnut’Final V1.1, Dec. 2004 - 13 -
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