Peter Knight, managing director at Stagecoach Bluebird and David Phillips, operations director at First Aberdeen said: “The closure of Union Street has caused frustrating delays for people using buses to visit the city centre. From our on board vehicle tracking we can see that the time our vehicles are at a standstill in city centre traffic has increased by 300% when compared to that of when Union Street was open. We are fully in support of developments to make the city centre a more vibrant place to visit, live and work but any such development should not be at the detriment of sustainable travel choices – such as bus. We only have to look round the corner to Broad Street to see our very own shining example of how shared spaces can truly transform city centres. To support the recovery of the city centre we ask that there is no further delay in reinstating bus access to the section of Union Street which has been closed.”