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 graph shows the number of car

journeys

into the city centre made by residents and non-residents over a

ten year

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period. In 1996 an average of just under 10,000

journeys

per day were being made by residents,

while

approximately half that number were made by non-residents. Over the subsequent three years,

resident

journeys

remained reasonably stable,

while

non-

resident

journeys

increased each year, exceeding 8,000 per day in 1999. In early 2000, parking meters were introduced into the city centre, and

this

had the effect of virtually halving

resident

traffic

,

although

non-

resident

traffic

decreased only slightly. By the end of 2002, the number of

resident

journeys

had not altered significantly, but non-

resident

journeys

had risen to their 1999 level. At

this

point, Westgate Street and Park Lane were pedestrianised.

This

resulted in a dramatic decline in non-

resident

traffic

, and a slight decrease in

resident

traffic

. From

this

point onward,

resident

traffic

remained more or less at the same level,

while

non-

resident

traffic

resumed its upward trend, reaching nearly 5,000

journeys

per day in 2005.