Bus lanes on three Derby major routes are to be scrapped, the city council has announced.
The authority has confirmed its intention to remove bus lanes on Curzon Street, Duffield Road and Kedleston Road.
The proposals include new 24 hour bus lanes, cycle lanes and improvements to junctions, crossing points and bus stops.
Plans include new bus lanes and junction improvements being installed on the stretch between Blaby and the city centre.
The combination of new bus lanes, longer red traffic lights and more pedestrian crossings inevitably means more delays for drivers.
Gateshead Council said it believed it was the first authority in mainland Britain to experiment with bollards to protect bus lanes.
As well as introducing bus lanes, it will widen stretches of the route including at Soar Valley Way and Carlton Street.
The council said it had decided to clamp down on abuse of bus lanes after a survey showed it was "rife" .
Leicestershire County Council has secured a government grant to improve bus lanes along the A426 between Blaby and Leicester via Glen Parva.
Sir Peter Soulsby approved the project, which will see bus lanes on the A426 from Glen Parva in to the city centre.
The bus lanes have proved unpopular and the council said the decision follows views from interested parties and those who have made objections.
Two weeks later, the president of Belfast Chamber of Trade and Commerce said the bus lanes had brought "chaos to the morning commute".
In the short term, the plan proposes an electronic tax-collecting system, a fuel premium for private cars, imposing parking charges and creating more bus lanes.
And the bus lanes would make already narrow roads even narrower.
There will no public transport, so bus lanes, except for those on motorway hard shoulders, can be used by motorists to keep traffic moving on Wednesday.
By tweaking the number, type and location of everything from bus lanes to street benches, zoning makes places more welcoming to visit and inviting to use.
Traffic lights are planned to replace the existing roundabout, with new bus lanes in each direction on Bridge Road to link Victoria Bridge and Stockton High Street.
Organisers say the Games Lanes will only be used on roads with more than one lane and will often replace bus lanes, thereby reducing the disruption caused.
An ambitious plan to create a network of dedicated bus lanes of equal size to the 175km metro system is behind schedule (though its second route opened this month).
On Kedleston Road both inbound bus lanes will be removed while on Duffield Road the bus lane will be scrapped in its entirety, with new cycle paths installed from Broadway to Palm Court roundabout.
When new bus lanes opened in May Street in September, under the first phase of Belfast on the Move, motorists and city centre retailers complained of severe traffic jams during the rush hour.
Some fans complained about difficulties getting around the city, with delays caused by traffic congestion and long queues to check in to hotels - despite efforts by the Russian authorities to ease their way, with special buses and bus lanes to ensure fans do not get caught in rush hour jams.
All vehicles will run from the MetroCentre along the Tyne on the dedicated bus priority lanes currently used by the X66 CentreLink buses before heading into Newcastle or Gateshead.
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The network has recently had to deal with the addition since 2010 of 187 miles of bike lanes and 18 miles of bus-only lanes that have special priority.
Plans to turn Highwood Road into a "linear park" with green spaces and bus and cycle lanes were originally agreed in 2002.
The city's green bus-priority lanes, more extensive and heavily enforced than in other places, have reduced journey times by up to 25% and greatly increased passenger numbers.
It set out the framework for a Strategic Rail Authority and also emphasised the need to improve bus travel by introducing more bus-only lanes and tightening their enforcement.
Given the tremendous investment made by municipalities across the country in road construction, exit ramps, turn lanes, bus routes, and traffic lights, all in support of the mall sales tax revenues, the American Mall cannot become a dinosaur and must evolve.
Since the mid-1990s, the state has been building new lanes to speed up bus travel times from Staten Island through Brooklyn to the tunnel.
Once complete the route will accommodate two lanes of traffic plus an additional bus lane.
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