Mr. Hugh Creegan:

There are two different things at play in Deputy Barry's questions. One is the infrastructure, the bus lanes. That is the document we put out last week for discussion. The second theme will be published next month, which is our proposals for where the bus services might run in the future. The bus lanes are required, even if we never made any change to the bus services.

They are busy routes. People are delayed on them. They need those bus lanes, in any event. Next month we will come out with the proposals for the bus services and it will be the subject of extensive public consultation. It is not the case at any level that what we are trying to do in those bus services is rob from the housing estates to feed these main routes. That is not the case. Overall, a lot more services will be proposed in the redesigned set of proposals that we will publish than we currently have. Not every service will be the same, and there will be issues undoubtedly, but our intention, as we said at the start of BusConnects, is to enable more people to travel to more places. That has been at the centre of everything that we do on this. In terms of the congestion issue, it is absolutely correct that displaced traffic moves somewhere. The impact of that will be dependent on how successful we are in providing an attractive enough bus system such that more people are able to use it. We will quantify that at a later point; we do not have it done yet. We have more work to do. Towards the end of year we will have at least some of that assessment work completed.