What we’ll call the Bridge Mall once the redevelopment is complete remains undecided.
Slow moving traffic will return to the area later this year but will only travel from west to east.
Chief Executive at the City of Ballarat, Evan King, says there’s a lot to consider.
“There’s quite a lot of rules around what you can call streets, and you can’t have streets with similar names because it gets very confusing for emergency services,” he said.
“At the moment, it’s still the Bridge Mall [but] there is another Bridge Street, so that’s one of the challenges around using Bridge Street [as] it could be confusing for emergency services.