ROADS Service are set to invest over £4million on Antrim's roads in the coming year.
Following a meeting at Antrim council last week, Roads Service launched their £4.2million scheme which includes a series of works including improving junction visibility, extending footpaths, as well as road maintenance schemes.
Roads Minister Con
or Murphy said: “It is proposed to improve the junction visibility splays at Craigstown Road/Ballylurgan Road, Staffordstown Road/Blackrock Road, Printshop Road/Lylehill Road, Castle Road/Milltown Road, Old Coach Road/ Lowtown Road, Ballynadrentagh Road/Blackstock Road and Steeple Road/Ladyhill Road.
“It is also proposed to extend the existing footway on the Moneynick Road, Toome, from Gloverstown Road to Drumderg roundabout and also extend the footway on the Barnish Road, Randalstown, towards the playing fields this financial year.”
In addition to the schemes that will be delivered in 2009/2010, the minister also made reference to the development work that was being undertaken on strategic road improvement schemes in the Antrim area, in particular the dualling of the A6 between Randalstown and Castledawson.
He said: “Roads Service is working towards appointing a contractor to undertake the design and construction of the scheme with work programmed to start on site in 2011 and complete in 2013.”
Roads Service’s Principal Engineer, Jim Campbell, welcomed the planned investment in local transport and safety measures in the Antrim area, which includes traffic calming, collision remedial, pedestrian measures, cycling measures and safer routes to schools.
Schemes which will be taken forward in the Antrim area this year include: traffic calming measures on the Rathenraw Estate, Antrim; widening of the footway on Old Steeple Road, Antrim as part of an ongoing Safe Route to School project with Antrim Grammar School; new school warning signs incorporating flashing amber lights will be provided at Crumlin Primary School on Mill Road and at Maine Integrated Primary School in Randalstown as part of an initiative aimed at introducing enhanced traffic management and speed management measures outside schools on main traffic routes.
Mr Campbell also highlighted some of the schemes that were completed in 2008/2009. These included: footway provision on Dunadry Road, Dunadry, between the railway bridge and Clady Road; a bend improvement at the junction of the Lurgan Road/ Cherryvalley Road, Crumlin; traffic calming measures on a number of streets in Randalstown; and collision remedial measures at the junction of the Dublin Road/ Ballymena Road/Randalstown Road in Antrim.
