Department for Infrastructure - Experimental Traffic Control Scheme – Bus Lanes – Belfast City Centre and Greater Belfast Area
What is happening?
The Department for Infrastructure (DfI) proposes to make the Experimental Traffic Control Scheme – Bus Lanes – Belfast
City Centre and Greater Belfast Area for a period of 6 months
The scheme will amend the operational times of inbound bus lanes in the Belfast City Centre and Greater Belfast area on
Ballynahinch Road, Botanic Avenue, Great Victoria Street (Shaftesbury Square to Bruce Street), Saintfield Road,
Shaftesbury Square, Stranmillis Road, Upper Malone Road, Malone Road and Lisburn Road (Tates Avenue to
Jubilee Road) from 7.30 a.m. to 9.30 a.m. Monday to Friday to 7.30 a.m. to 9.30 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. Monday to
Friday inclusive.
The scheme will also extend the operational times of the bus lanes on Ormeau Road from 7.30 a.m. to 9.30 a.m. (inbound)
and from 3.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. (outbound) Monday to Friday to 7.30 a.m. to 9.30 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. in both
directions Monday to Friday inclusive.
Vehicles are excepted from the restrictions in certain circumstances.
Full details are contained in the draft scheme, which together with maps showing the roads involved, may be inspected free
of charge during office hours within the period below at DfI TRAM Eastern Division, Hydebank House, 4a Hospital Road,
Ballydollaghan, Belfast, BT8 8JL or viewed online at
www.infrastructure-ni.gov.uk/consultations
Inspection of the draft scheme and maps is by appointment only which can be arranged either by email using traffic.
eastern@infrastructure-ni.gov.uk
or by telephone during office hours (Monday to Friday 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.) on
0300 200 7899.
Any person may object or make other representations, specifying the grounds on which they are made, by writing to the
Department at the address above or by emailing
traffic.eastern@infrastructure-ni.go.uk
within a period of 22 days from the
date of publication of this Notice.
Information you provide in your response to this consultation, excluding personal information, may be published or disclosed
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) or the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR). If you want the
information that you provide to be treated as confidential, please tell us why, but be aware that, under FOIA/EIR, we cannot
guarantee confidentiality.
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https://www.infrastructure-ni.gov.uk/dfi-privacy
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