Driving up from the Peak District, is driving in to York more busy on a week day or a weekend?
The former would have regular works, the latter would have more tourists. I'm not sure what the relative numbers are for both in York specifically.
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1Better in terms of? Lower traffic?– Mark MayoCommented Apr 7, 2014 at 0:09
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1Traffic and parking. You know, car-related stuff. :)– dlanodCommented Apr 7, 2014 at 0:14
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2Personally I'd suggest catching a train.– DocCommented Apr 7, 2014 at 4:40
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Google maps let's you see historical traffic for arbitrary times of the week. I use it all the time to answer these types of questions.– alx9rCommented Apr 13, 2014 at 15:41
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York is a difficult place for the motorist at any time. For the obvious historical reasons the city centre is not geared up for anything but light-to-reasonable traffic but does have a linked series of single-carriageway roads circumnavigating the Roman Walls to help motorists avoid traversing the city centre itself.
A few miles further out you have an outer ring road which is dual carriageway on the South and Eastern sides (A64), and single-lane on the West and Northern sides. Parking is severely restricted in the centre although there are a few small car parks if you wish to gamble on driving to the centre and finding a space. York counteracts this by having 5 or 6 Park and Rides (info here) dotted around the outer ring road, with judicious use of bus lanes to move visitors and workers into the city centre reasonably efficiently and as York isn't a huge city it's a fairly quick journey.
During the week you have office workers and tourists; at weekends you have shoppers and tourists. The differential between traffic levels between the two is minimal, in my experience. York is generally busy traffic-wise whichever day of the week you would choose to go.
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The Park and Ride information was brilliant. It was very easy to drop off the main road right into a Park and Ride and then take the bus directly into the city. It also means you can catch the bus back to your park at numerous stops inside the city itself.– dlanodCommented Oct 31, 2014 at 4:41
Use google Maps' Historical Traffic
Using maps.google.com you can show traffic for arbitrary times of the week:
I use this regularly to answer these types of questions. On perhaps its most useful occasion I determined that landing at LAX at 6:45pm on a weekday was a way better idea than landing at 5:00pm.
Note: I don't really know whether the map shown is the route you are talking about nor have I ever driven in Britain. But I have found google's historical traffic data to be a very good predictor of future traffic wherever it is available. Certainly more reliable than a single person's opinion.
