bus lanes

Whither public hire taxis and the wider taxi industry in NI?

Andy Boal on August 31, 2018, 7:00 am | Readers 1570

Wednesday came as a bit of a shock, as for the first time since, well, the early 1990s at least, I was glad not to have an Executive, as the Department for Infrastructure announced that it could no longer proceed with a proposed Experimental Traffic Control Scheme to permit Class A taxis in bus lanes in the absence of a Minister. This excellent news for cyclists and other legitimate bus lane users who will not now be swamped by Class …

The week a public transport advocate said rip out a bus lane…

Andy Boal on August 22, 2018, 7:00 am | Readers 3292

Or near enough. I’ve got to be honest, last week I heard the complaints about Queens Road while on holiday in Copenhagen, and initially I thought… they’ve got to be exaggerated. But then more and more details fed through, and it became clear that the Department for Infrastructure had based traffic figures for Queens Road on seven or eight years ago, a lot earlier in the development of the Belfast Rapid Transport project, with Catalyst Inc at an earlier stage …

Bus lane cameras: the first three weeks (UPDATED)

Andy Boal on June 24, 2015, 6:14 pm | Readers 1299

There is one authorised vehicular route into the restricted part of Belfast city centre – via High Street. Donegall Place has been one way for several years, but it and Royal Avenue only ever permitted buses to enter. The signs at the junction with Bridge Street ban all traffic from passing except buses, permit holders, delivery vehicles overnight, disabled badge holders and other authorised vehicles (read: emergency services and Belfast City Council). Cycles are theoretically banned from this entry point, …

Belfast Telegraph and City Centre bus lanes

Andy Boal on December 16, 2014, 8:40 pm | Readers 1332

And I thought I’d stopped commenting on transport for a wee while. Hey ho. Jim Rodgers is quoted in today’s Belfast Telegraph as calling for a formal review of city centre bus lanes, backed by Gavin Robinson. I’m not going to retread ground I covered on Friday and Saturday, but I do want to make a few comments. As I’ve already noted, I think the bus lanes were brought in too soon. Implementation should have been more closely tied to …