Q. What impact will the Super - route have on the Forest?

A. Ok, well that's quite a wide look at things, because there is a lot of impact that it would have; right from the rare insects and rare fungi that are in the forest floors and in the trees. There are also the important aspects of the red squirrels, the native red squirrels we have in the forest, badgers, foxes and long eared owls that build their nests on the edge of the golf course. A bus route or a road going through the forest would affect them all. One of the other aspects of this is that Belvoir Park Forest is only 3 miles from Belfast City Centre. It's an oasis within a city. It is the only commercial forest within a city in the British Isles. It is also a place of peace and tranquillity. It is a place where people from Belfast and beyond can come and visit they can come and relax. They can for an hour, two hours for a walk in Belvoir Park Forest and get away from the stress and strains of living in Belfast and regardless of what troubles they've got should it be financial or the Troubles themselves, they can come here and relax. Once you enter the gates into Belvoir Park Forest you enter a magical world and people can relieve themselves from the stress and strains of living in a world that's full of cars and buses and relax with nature.

Q. What is your preference for the future?

A. There are viable alternatives for this bus route, well first of all it would destroy the peace and tranquillity. There are viable alternatives such as along the carriageway to Forestside and making Annadale Avenue a one way system, which could work. But I personally think that the powers that be are being very short sighted. They need to be building park and ride areas in other little towns like Saintfield, Downpatrick, Ballynahinch, Newcastle and Castlewellan so that people can park their cars and they are not trooping the whole way to town in their cars. So there needs to be more money spent on the project rather than just throwing a few pounds at it to build a park and ride at Purdysburn. Friends of Belvoir are in favour of public transport. We've nothing against it, in fact that is one of the solutions to the problem. It is the solution to the problem. It's just the particular route and system that the department would want to use.