He wants the main bus stops moved to Myers Street and Pall Mall.

“To date, all thinking has been concentrated on intensive use of Mitchell Street for routing, and picking up and dropping off passengers,” Mr Phillips said.

“Some use of Mitchell Street is inevitable because of its strategic east-west arterial road status.”

However, Mr Phillips, a civil and municipal engineer, said there was a way of avoiding having bus stops in Mitchell Street.

“If we apply some lateral thinking, it is possible to avoid major infrastructure costs, adjust and balance parking spaces, revise pavement lane use and modify traffic signal phasing to satisfy bus patrons.

“We could mollify the traders and deliver a cost-effective solution to the community.

“The solution, I believe, is to orient bus movements and bus stops on north-south arterials instead of the east-west Mitchell Street arterial road.

“The council, in partnership with the State Government, could establish an anticlockwise bus route via Myers Street, Mundy Street, Pall Mall and Mitchell Street.

“They could create bus lanes and major bus stops in Myers Street adjacent to Coles and Pall Mall outside Myer.”

Mr Phillips said his experience in traffic management had taught him to think outside the square.

“I’m not really criticising what the Government and the council are trying to do in Mitchell Street.

“It is a main road, and they are trying to make it better.

“What I’m on about is: have they really exhausted all of the possibilities?”