City centre drivers in Bradford could soon face more changes to their journey to make way for the £300 million Broadway shopping development.

It follows the advertising of three traffic orders which aim to improve Barkerend Road, Church Bank, Bolton Road and Shipley Airedale Road. The schemes are designed to accommodate the closure of Petergate which is due to go ahead this autumn as part of the £20 million Connecting the City programme.

If members of Bradford Council's executive approve, a peak-hour bus lane could be introduced on the Barkerend Road approach to the city centre between New Otley Road and Shipley Airedale Road. Traffic flows would be monitored after the closure of Petergate before any decision is made to go ahead.

A second order proposes making Church Bank and the remaining part of Forster Square in front of St Peter's House into a bus-only route.

The final order would remove the right turn from Shipley Airedale Road into Barkerend Road. Planners hope this will reduce congestion at the junction once Petergate closes.

Guy Barford, the Council's Connecting the City project manager, said: "The closure of Petergate will have a significant impact on traffic going through and around the city centre. These measures aim to accommodate the diverted traffic, particularly using Shipley Airedale Road and Barkerend Road."

The Broadway scheme is also about to see the old listed railway station facade dismantled brick by brick, and each stone marked so it can be reassembled, like a giant jigsaw puzzle, at a nearby site.

The wall was built in the 19th century and is listed for its association with the historic Midland Hotel.

Experts will begin the work in the next few weeks - around the same time the statue of Bradford Victorian educationalist and politician W E Forster is being removed from its plinth in Forster Square.

It will be put in storage and reinstalled nearby in 2007.

Work has now finished on the demolition of Midland House and Forster House. Other major demolition work this year will see Petergate and Central House, including the Bhs store, hitting the dust.

The demolition contracts are being let by the developers of the £250 million shopping scheme Stannifer. But the £20 million road works project - Connecting the City - is being led by Bradford Council with Mowlem plc as main contractors. It also involves the major job of providing trenches to lay mains services. Mowlem's site manager Mark Wood said: "The highways work is progressing well."

He praised the co-operation of statutory organisations like gas and electricity. "The co-ordination has been excellent. It is to the good of the city as a whole," he said.

Bradford Council's executive member for regeneration Councillor Simon Cooke said: "We are ensuring things of historical importance are preserved and re-instated. As the roadworks continue there is bound to be some disruption but we hope that people will bear with us."