A new bus lane has been proposed for a key route into the city which is used by park-and-ride buses and often congested.
The £1.7m scheme would see the verge along the A140 Ipswich Road widened to accommodate a bus-only lane for vehicles coming from Harford Park and Ride.
Currently, the A140 Ipswich Road can become very busy at the junction with the Harford roundabout for the A47, which Norfolk County Council says is impacting the bus services.
The new filter lane would run as far as the Tesco supermarket on the city-bound side before merging with the highway before the B1113 junction.
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The project is designed to help improve bus journey times and reliability not only for the park and ride but also for the other services that use the route, including buses from Long Stratton, Diss and Harleston.
Widening the verge would mean there would be no loss of road space for general traffic.
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A similar £300,000 proposal for bus improvements has also been lodged for Angel Road and Waterloo Road in the city.
Graham Plant, the county council's cabinet member for highways, infrastructure and transport, said: "These projects in Norwich offer a really positive start to bus improvements and will build on the excellent progress we've made with public transport infrastructure improvements through the Transforming Cities Fund.
"We hope that this, combined with the wave of new and extended services being delivered through our Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP), will encourage more people to use these services."
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The news comes after the nearby Postwick Park and Ride trial reopening was extended by another three months following a recent boost in numbers.
The deadline for feedback on both projects is December 22. If approved, the Harford bus lane construction is planned to begin next autumn.
Funding for the projects is through the BSIP which was awarded nearly £50m from the Department for Transport to improve bus services and infrastructure facilities across the county.
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