A long-delayed scheme to manage traffic flow in Liverpool city centre is to go live next month.
Around four years after first being proposed, a ‘bus gate’ programme will finally become active on the Hanover Street corridor according to Cllr Dan Barrington, Liverpool Council cabinet member for climate change and environment. In 2018, the local authority signed off on plans for the scheme to be introduced that would ban cars and private hire taxis using the busy route, making it exclusively available for buses and Hackney cabs.
The scheme went back before cabinet in 2020 with the plans said to be active in November that year as part of an 18 month traffic order scheme. However, it was revealed in September 2021, cameras in place to catch those flouting the restrictions had yet to be turned on.
