The consultation closed on Monday the 12th January 2026.

City of York Council have launched a consultation on a scheme to improve bus journeys into and across the city centre, but which will also bring huge benefits to those who cycle, or wish they could cycle, from Clifford Street right through the Micklegate area.

The Rougier Route proposals will introduce a bus-gate on a 90m stretch of Micklegate between the junctions with George Hudson Street (Pop World) and North Street (Sainsburys), allowing only buses, cycles, and emergency vehicles to pass between these two junctions. 

All other streets in the Micklegate area will be fully accessible to all road users at all times of day around a new one-way route for motor traffic up Tanner Row and down Micklegate. A contraflow cycle track will allow cyclists to travel in both directions on both streets.