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NOTTINGHAM bus priority ieme based on the use of iffic lights at major junctions iced a " collar " around the ier city when it went into eration on Monday.
Local authorities around the untry will be studying the heme, said to have cost 00,000, which operates bereen 7.30 and 9.30am peak tffic time. Long-delay traffic ,hts at major-minor road actions will hold up private rs and goods vehicles for up 10 minutes at a time, to ease e flow of buses in special The 10-minute delay will be llowed by only a few seconds of green to allow other traffic to enter the system, and massive queues are inevitable.
Motorists will be offered free out-of-city parking to induce them to leave their cars at home and use the buses. But there are no concessions on the collar system as far as goods vehicles are concerned and these will have to join the queues at the lights.
A spokesman for the RHA in Nottingham told CM that as the schools were on holiday this week the first morning was fairly quiet, but the real test would come when the schools began their new term.