Round here the council decided that the best way to reduce traffic
round the city center was to constrict ring road to reduce the number
of lanes. It was a disaster the result was that buses are now stuck in
congestion and have to take paths that are not part of their route and
occasionally skip stops. The council even started re-arranging the
hunctions to improve traffic flow. The problem is that the ring road
is the main way of getting across from one side of town to another.
Rather than narrow it, they sould have improved it to alow flow from
one side of the city to another. It looks like this is what they are
trying to do. Unfortunatly the bus service is only good if you want to
go where the buses run and its very expensive. If you are going as a
family is considerably cheaper [1] to go by car and pay the parking
fees, which is wrong. It should be cheaper to encourage use.

Surely better than narrowing the road would have been to provide a
bus/taxi/cycle lane?