The bar chart gives information about the number of car journeys into the city centre made by residents and non-residents. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart compares how many

residents

and

Non-

residents

made a journey by car from 1996 to 2005.

Overall

,

it is clear that

the average

number

of

journeys

for

residents

tended to decrease.

However

,

Non-

residents

choose cars to make a journey that experienced fluctuation during the time period, eventually, the

figures

for

Non-

residents

had a sour trend. Looking

further

,the average

number

of

journeys

for

residents

was the largest position from around 10000 in 1996 to 9500 in 1999. At the same time, the

number

of car

journeys

for Non-

residents

was half time than that of

residents

in 1996, after that, the

figures

for

Non-

residents

remained at a steady raise of roughly 8000 until 1999. From 2000 to 2002, because parking meters were introduced in the city centre, the

figures

for

residents

stepped into plummeted during

this

period, and they maintained at roughly 5000 per day.

By contrast

, it is obvious that the

number

of

journeys

for

Non-

residents

had an upward tendency, and reached 8000. Another reason was that Westgate street and park lane closed to traffic after 2002, which had an evident effect on streams of

journeys

for

Non-

residents

, making it decline to below 5000.

Additionally

,

due to

this

reason, the

figures

for

residents

further

decreased and kept at about 4000.