 Building of the CITI route and central loop has yet to begin.If the rapid transit network is completed it will total about .In January 2007 David Cairns MP, then Regional Development Minister of Northern Ireland, announced that engineering consultants WS Atkins PLC were to undertake economic feasibility studies on rapid transit proposals for Belfast, including 
assessing the Belfast Metropolitan Transport Plan (BMTP) proposals for the EWAY rapid transit scheme which would run between Dundonald and Belfast city centre.