But Transport Minister Guy de Faye says Central Market traders will be up in arms if delivery trucks cannot cut through the lane, also known as Hilgrove Street, to drop off products.
And trader David Dodge, who runs Vienna Bakery, says it will cause many problems and ‘potentially adversely change the shape of retailing in town’.
He is chairman of the Jersey Chamber of Commerce transport links sub-committee and claims there has been no consultation on the planned closure.
However, publican Graham Channing , who runs the Prince of Wales in French Lane, says heavy lorries and dangerously parked vehicles are a constant problem for street traders.
He cannot wait until deliveries are banned during the daytime.
Town Constable Simon Crowcroft has vowed to block access to French Lane after about 10 am as part of a general improvement scheme for the parish-owned road that is partly designed to keep pedestrians safe.
He said the parish roads committee had approved a £30,000 scheme, at least a third of which was earmarked to pay for a rising bollard to be put at the Halkett Place entrance to the street.
