A section of George and Princes Sts will be free of buses and lower Great King St will be a public transport hive when the new Dunedin bus hub is created.
Work is set to start on Monday.
The Otago Regional Council said last week it would be completed in November. This will require the tweaking of routes to get buses in and out of the new hub in Great King St, between Moray Pl and St Andrew St.
Council support services manager Gerard Collings said the changes would become effective when the hub became operational.
There would then be no council-contracted buses travelling between the corner of Moray Pl and Princes St and the intersection of George and St Andrew Sts.
Buses would instead use the east side of Moray Pl, where no routes now travel, to reach the Great King St hub.
From the hub, where there are now no bus routes, there would be routes turning left and right into St Andrew St.
Another bus route would continue north along Great King St and stop at the hospital, which no public bus does now, before turning right into Frederick St.
A bus service travelling up and down London St would now be diverted.
The exact bus routes would be communicated to the public before the hub became operational, Mr Collings said.
The bus routes were changed last year with the new hub in mind, and so would not require major changes when it was constructed, he said.
"One thing we don’t want is the change to be that extensive."
The council recently began pushing messages about its bus code of conduct, outlining the behaviour expectations of both passengers and drivers.
Mr Collings said this was part of "re-lifting the image of public transport throughout Dunedin". No particular incidents had led to the push, he said.
