A £5m park and ride could be closed indefinitely – just two years after it was opened.
Taxpayers are paying for empty buses from Kew Park and Ride, near Southport, with around £250,000 a year of public money.
Sefton Council officials are now saying it is time to pull the plug on the scheme before wasting any more cash.
The facility, which only opened in November 2007 is chronically under used.
Planners had hoped to pull in up to 4,500 cars to Kew every week.
But, an average of only 600 a week have been using it.
It costs a £1 to park at the Southport Road site and catch the bus into the seaside resort.
But laying on the buses costs Sefton £272,050 a year.
Drivers have paid around £30,000 a year towards that cost, meaning the facility swallows up £242,050 of Sefton’s cash and each carload’s trip into town is subsidised by around £7.80.
Sefton paid £2.7m towards building the park and ride and Merseytravel contributed £2.2m.
