Queens Road Belfast

[Queens Road Belfast @QueensRdBelfast]

A bridge at this spot would open access from North Belfast and @StJoesBelfast to The @SSEBelfastArena @TitanicBelfast @TitanicHotelBel and @CatalystNI_ , and improve public transport links to all those facilities via @Translink_NI Yorkgate Station.

[Queens Road Belfast @QueensRdBelfast]

Fabulous news.

I missed this before Xmas. If/when built this will make a massive difference to Titanic Quarter and Sailortown.

It shouldn't have taken 8 years to get to the point of putting together a design team, but it's a very welcome first step.

https://t.co/9KcDWZHSwJ

[Queens Road Belfast @QueensRdBelfast]

Traffic currently very heavy on @QueensRdBelfast . But sure the whole city is a car park so it hardly makes us special anymore.

[Queens Road Belfast @QueensRdBelfast]

@CircleLineBT @GliderBelfast I even know where to get the extra rolling stock

[Queens Road Belfast @QueensRdBelfast]

@CircleLineBT @StephenNolan @belfastcc They don't all arrive or leave simultaneously. I don't know what your problem with the Christmas market is but it's a a silly straw man argument that's totally irrelevant to the matter at hand.

Did someone give you a dodgy springbok burger or something? 😂

[Queens Road Belfast @QueensRdBelfast]

@CircleLineBT @StephenNolan @belfastcc It absolutely could be a solution. The Sailortown - Queens Road bridge on its own would make a massive difference.

But in the meantime we have to play the cards we've been dealt. That means taking pragmatic decisions that keep the city moving as well as possible.

[Queens Road Belfast @QueensRdBelfast]

@CircleLineBT @StephenNolan @belfastcc Not what I said.

It doesn't put thousands of extra cars into the middle of rush hour.

The Disney on Ice traffic madness is as predictable as the date of Christmas.

[Queens Road Belfast @QueensRdBelfast]

@CircleLineBT @StephenNolan @belfastcc It's still a straw man. The Christmas market doesn't cause these sort of issues and in any case markets aren't covered by the relevant legislation.

[Queens Road Belfast @QueensRdBelfast]

@CircleLineBT @StephenNolan @belfastcc If we keep allowing this year after year eventually it's going to coincide with some emergency situation and people will be hurt or worse because emergency services are unable to move round the city to where they are needed.

[Queens Road Belfast @QueensRdBelfast]

@CircleLineBT @StephenNolan @belfastcc The reason is that the short turnover time between performances means people are arriving and leaving at the same time. It snarls up the M3, which then backs up through York Road junction and the West link, and that's the ball game.

So far we've been lucky...

[Queens Road Belfast @QueensRdBelfast]

@CircleLineBT @StephenNolan @belfastcc So what?

Anfield has planning permission. Croke Park has planning permission.

The Christmas market is your straw man. I've not mentioned it.

[Queens Road Belfast @QueensRdBelfast]

@CircleLineBT @StephenNolan @belfastcc I'm saying it should be subject to the sort of regulation that would occur in any normal city. The sort of regulation that prevented the Garth Brooks concerts in Croke Park in 2014 or that prevents Liverpool or Everton from playing at home on Grand National day.

[Queens Road Belfast @QueensRdBelfast]

@CircleLineBT @StephenNolan @belfastcc I never said it was. It's crazy.

But allowing people to hold events that draw large crowds without sufficient regard to the impact on traffic and/or public transport isn't how you make a city successful either.

[Queens Road Belfast @QueensRdBelfast]

@CircleLineBT @StephenNolan @belfastcc We do restrict Castlecourt's opening hours every Sunday.

What you're saying there is that BCC shouldn't have the power to restrict the SSE. That's something you would need to take up with an MLA.

The law of the land is that they have the power to do it, but are choosing not to.

[Queens Road Belfast @QueensRdBelfast]

@CircleLineBT @StephenNolan @belfastcc They can and they do. Like any such venue the SSE Arena requires an entertainment licence to be granted by BCC, who have to power to restrict their hours of operation.

[Queens Road Belfast @QueensRdBelfast]

This is crazy.

https://t.co/eQwTMc210r

[Queens Road Belfast @QueensRdBelfast]

Titanic Qtr is a disaster. Stay in the office if you can.

[Queens Road Belfast @QueensRdBelfast]

"But we don't have the weather"