Belfast City Council is urging Stormont to pilot a scheme for 'Car Free Sundays' in the city centre.
A letter from SDLP Councillor Séamas de Faoite has become available, in which he writes on behalf of the council to the Permanent Secretary at the Department of Infrastructure, asking for a resumption of conversations between the council and Stormont from three years ago.
The letter states: “Prior to the pandemic Belfast City Council had asked your department to consider a pilot scheme of Car Free Sundays in Belfast city centre. As Chair at the time of the council’s All Party Working Group on the Climate Crisis I was keen to see this pilot take place to promote and support the use of active travel in our city and open Belfast up to people rather than congestion and car fumes.
