All of Royal Avenue, Castle Place, Donegall Place and High Street should be completely pedestrianised – it would work so much better, writes ShaunaReports
Standing there this week highlighted for me just how big a miss it was when the Department for Infrastructure reopened the once blissfully people-only area to vehicles.
There are literally people going every direction, weaving in and out of traffic that shouldn’t be there and trying to make the lights in one of Belfast’s major shopping streets before a stream of big pink buses hold them up or a car whizzes past. Did they even do an equality assessment on what the roads dinosaurs have left us with instead of the well-used parklet we used to have there? I’ll have to check.opportunity to put active travel at the heart of towns and cities when Paris and other cities around the world were busy making their central areas places that were attractive and safe for people to be.
Why can’t buses just go around the outside of this area like vehicles are expected to? Let’s get rid of the onstreet parking in the area except for a few for people with disabilities, move the buses around the outside with stops for people to get off at.Imagine this area free of traffic, where people can cross without worries. That’s a city centre we could all be proud of – and one with a lot less air pollution.
A spokesperson said: “The Traffic Management Order 2005 gives the department the power to issue Penalty Charge Notices when a vehicle is detected parked on a legislated Mandatory Cycle Lane.
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