Mr. Feljin Jose:

The draft transport strategy contains a proposal for regional bus corridors along the M50 for a few kilometres. They are bus lanes on motorways that will give bus priority. When one goes further out, however, one encounters very sparsely populated areas with loads of different towns and buses will be a key part of the solution. We must make sure that there is adequate bus priority that will allow buses to get through junctions, on the dual carriageways coming in and through the M50, to reach the city. BusConnects mostly concerns the area inside the M50 and, therefore, it is important to look at regional bus corridors outside of that as well. We must build long-term projects now. We must start the design and planning now in order that we will have a pipeline of projects to keep funding and building when resources are favourable.