The Belfast Inner Ring plan will see a continuous four lane (2+2) road right round the city centre. Most of this will be constructed using existing streets (for details and a map of this plan see link above), but the Bankmore Link will be new. It will join Cromac Street, close to Ormeau Avenue, directly to Dublin Road at Bruce Street (beside the cinema). Bruce Street and Hope Street will be upgraded to join it.

Anyone who knows Ormeau Avenue knows that the area on the south side of the road is essentially wasteland, given over to car parks and bare concrete. This is because this scheme has been in the pipeline since the 1970s and the land has been purposely left clear of developments. This is very obvious in the aerial view below.

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An aerial view of the area of the planned Bankmore Link. Dublin Road is in the centre with Bruce Street and Hope Street to its left. The Bankmore Link will run from where the green garden is out towards the right, following the line of buildings to the south. Ormeau Avenue is visible just to the north of this. [Image from Google Earth].