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31/07/2012
A5 Improvement Project Gets Go-Ahead
A £330m roads improvement project for the A5 has been given the green light.
Roads minister Danny Kennedy said the project – the longest road scheme ever undertaken in Northern Ireland – could go ahead.
The project will improve two stretches of road, between Ballygawley and Omagh and between Derry and Strabane.
Mr Kennedy said that as well as making the roads safer, the project would create construction work and "spill-off jobs" in the area.
He said: "We anticipate that this will create a boost for the road construction industry, in the region of 800 jobs. Obviously there will be spill-off jobs also to the local economy and as well as that it will improve the overall road infrastructure in the west with a significant opportunity to move goods vehicles and local people to the benefit of the local economy."
The minister said better junctions on the stretches of road would reduce the number of collisions.
The first stretch runs for around nine miles between New Buildings on the outskirts of Derry and Strabane, and the second, 14 miles between Omagh and Ballygawley.
A recommendation to upgrade the road between Ballygawley and neighbouring Aughnacloy on the Tyrone/Monaghan border has been postponed.
Friends of the Earth Northern Ireland director James Orr said: "To build vast stretches of new road when our existing transport network is struggling to cope is to tarmac our way straight down a dead-end street."
(NE)
Roads minister Danny Kennedy said the project – the longest road scheme ever undertaken in Northern Ireland – could go ahead.
The project will improve two stretches of road, between Ballygawley and Omagh and between Derry and Strabane.
Mr Kennedy said that as well as making the roads safer, the project would create construction work and "spill-off jobs" in the area.
He said: "We anticipate that this will create a boost for the road construction industry, in the region of 800 jobs. Obviously there will be spill-off jobs also to the local economy and as well as that it will improve the overall road infrastructure in the west with a significant opportunity to move goods vehicles and local people to the benefit of the local economy."
The minister said better junctions on the stretches of road would reduce the number of collisions.
The first stretch runs for around nine miles between New Buildings on the outskirts of Derry and Strabane, and the second, 14 miles between Omagh and Ballygawley.
A recommendation to upgrade the road between Ballygawley and neighbouring Aughnacloy on the Tyrone/Monaghan border has been postponed.
Friends of the Earth Northern Ireland director James Orr said: "To build vast stretches of new road when our existing transport network is struggling to cope is to tarmac our way straight down a dead-end street."
(NE)
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