the bar chart gives information about the number of car journeys into city centre

The illustration depicts the density of car drives to the city center made by both natives and nonnatives from 1996 to 2005. Generally, it is apparent that because of the implementation of parking regulations, the frequency diminished in terms of both groups of commuters. Between 1996 and 1999, the figures for residents present more visits to the center than those of non-residents. Starting at nearly 10000 journeys per day, the number of native car travels oscillated more or less the same until 1999. Whereas, in 1996 there were only around half of the resident’s drives were made by the nonnatives, which soon reached the peak in 1999 with approxiamtely 8000 car journeys a day. In 2000, due to the introduction of parking meters in the city center, the resident traffic halved and stayed mildly constant until 2002. Nonetheless, during this time, the meters had had little effect on non-residents’ travel. Now that traffic was prohibited on Westgate Street and Parkland by the end of 2002, traffic in the city center significantly dwindled. While the number of car travels made by locals fell by an average of 1000, the statistics for foreigners declined from nearly 8000 to around 3000 journeys per day. By 2005, however, it gradually returned to over 5000.