“If traffic and public transport congestion continues as is and worsens the closer we get to Christmas, people simply won’t come to the city centre.”
A number of leading business and hospitality organisations across Northern Ireland have called for the return of a pre-Christmas moratorium on roadworks in Belfast city centre and the Sydenham Bypass.
The two groups say the return of a previously observed pre-Christmas six-week moratorium on the performance of roadworks on arterial routes in the city centre is urgently needed. Otherwise, they have warned, city centre hospitality and retail businesses may suffer economically during what is traditionally their busiest time of year due to lower footfall caused by traffic congestion.
While stating that the groups are in favour of modal shift and the work being done to establish an integrated transport hub in Belfast, they stressed the need to pause roadworks until after the Christmas period to allow the city centre to reap the economic benefits of the season. “Hospitality Ulster and Retail NI have always urged consumers to make public transport their first option, rather than their last and are supportive of the building of an integrated transport hub in Belfast and of the associated modal shift that goes along with that.
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