A one-way system will carry traffic in a clockwise direction around Dundee’s new central waterfront, it has been revealed.
The roads are being built as part of a £500m revamp of the area which once hosted the Olympia, Tayside House and the Hilton hotel.
The main road that will run along the north of the site will be one-way travelling east. Similarly traffic on the southern boulevard will travel one-way to the west.
Drivers arriving in the city from Riverside Drive who want to access the new V&A museum on the riverbank will have to enter the one-way system and travel clockwise to reach the £45m attraction.
Traffic coming into Dundee from the Tay Road Bridge will have the option of entering East Dock Street to travel east, or driving on to the southern boulevard towards Riverside Drive, the railway station or the city centre.
Some of the streets which form a grid pattern in the centre of the site will accommodate two-way traffic. Pay-and-display parking spaces will also be added.
Ken Guild, city council leader, said: “This is very close to the final roads system. Once this is in place, then that will allow the various blocks around the development to form.
“It’s designed to avoid any bottlenecks or any places where the traffic gets snarled up. A lot of computer modelling has been done over several years on this.
“The idea is to keep the through traffic flowing. We have a one-way system operating already throughout the city centre at present and when it was bedding in people were saying it was a long way round.
“But they can see that the thing works. People have seen in the last few years things being knocked down and cleared away.
“Now, we’re going to see things going up and being put into place.”
The traffic flow restrictions will go before councillors on Monday for approval.