Ah, Friday. POETS day. Quieter rush hour than usual because of long weekends, and people getting the bus in so they can have drinks after work before getting a taxi home. So where does all the congestion come from on Friday afternoons? That was the question Brian asked me a wee while back, and it has a fairly straightforward answer, and I thought I might take a quick look at congestion patterns at two other peaks in the week. Monday …
Belfast congestion tends to disappear into insignificance when you are crawling for 10 miles along the M77 in Scotland at 8 o’clock on a Tuesday morning – it gives a whole new perspective on the hill section of the M2, and certainly on Victoria Street in the City Centre. Today’s Belfast Telegraph carries the results of the latest TomTom traffic index. My good friend and actual expert on the subject, Wesley Johnston, was unavailable and recommended me to comment on …
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 …
