A6 Dungiven to Londonderry dualling

murphaph

This stretch of the main Belfast - Derry road is to be dualled;

£250m road scheme given green light

The Government today announced the go-ahead for Northern Ireland's biggest road scheme.

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The A6 between Londonderry and Dungiven will be upgraded to dual carriageway at a cost £250 million.

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He also confirmed 18.6 miles (30km) of dual carriageway along the A6 from Derry to Dungiven would be included in the Regional Strategic Transport Plan 2015.

I'm sure it'll be welcome for many Derry folk on here.

ardmacha

2015 isn't too ambitious a target for getting the job done!

Maskhadov

10 year OMG. We should have T21 finished by the time they have that road done.

Must try harder

Victor

Well there goes the ?Derry - Coleraine motorway then.

John R

Maskhadov wrote:

10 year OMG. We should have T21 finished by the time they have that road done.

Must try harder

Of course we will :rolleyes:

Must try to be less gullible

Maskhadov

I was referring to the fact that it will take a decade to build a road (and only to dual carriageway standard)

murphaph

A little bit more info on Wesley Johnston's site

John R

Maskhadov wrote:

I was referring to the fact that it will take a decade to build a road (and only to dual carriageway standard)

And I was referring to you actually believing that T21 will be completed.

Maskhadov

i said should

spacetweek

Victor wrote:

Well there goes the ?Derry - Coleraine motorway then.

Looks like it - and some motorway renumbering wouldn't go astray. Change the M22 to M2 and rename the Ballymena section of M2 to M26. The original numbering plan no longer makes sense now that most of it won't ever be built.

mysterious

Yah I agree with the road numbering, its outragous! the same with the original A1 that passed through Lisburn which is now the M1and runs along the A3 most of the way, it should be M3 all the way to Dungannon and it should be A1/M1 to Dublin same sh!te with the M2 and M22 roads, very disturbing:D joking... but know its annoying.

The Toome bypass is'nt fantastic reminds me of the Enfield bypass with two lanes each way very tight with roundabouts I believe, surely if in and around 25,000 cars use that heavily bridge section of A6 should have got a motorway status to join the M22 don't ye think ??

Victor

mysterious wrote:

The Toome bypass is'nt fantastic reminds me of the Enfield bypass with two lanes each way very tight with roundabouts I believe, surely if in and around 25,000 cars use that heavily bridge section of A6 should have got a motorway status to join the M22 don't ye think ??

Toome - Castledawson will see a lot of it reworked.

murphaph

I'm sure some cross border funding would be forthcoming for a bit of work on the A5. Does the upgrading of the N2 (the widening, bypasses and 2+1 bits currently under construction) go right to the border? How is the A5 from there on? I know Omagh is getting a 'throughpass' but AFAIK that's all that's scheduled to happen on it.

Persnally I think they should be dualling the A26 from the M1 to the M2 to allow traffic from the north coast, Ballymena etc. to reach Dublin without going through Belfast, this might then provide a better route from Derry to the east coast as well as providing better access to Aldergrove.

Maskhadov

The N2 is a bit strange. There is motorway standard till Asbourne. Ordinary dual carriage with a few bypasses for the rest of the road to the border apart from a 2+1 stretch around castleblaney. I dont know why they didnt build 2+1 for the rest of the route

jlang

They only started specifying 2+1's after the Carrick bypass was started (obviously before it was opened, though), but before the Castleblaney one - which will be one of the first batch in the country. The recently completed road closer to Dublin could be retrofitted with 2+1, but I suppose it's unlikely.

Maskhadov

there is another section from monaghan to the border, they could have had it as 2+1 but it will be plain old single carriageway. Very disapointing planning.

mysterious

Maskhadov wrote:

The N2 is a bit strange. There is motorway standard till Asbourne. Ordinary dual carriage with a few bypasses for the rest of the road to the border apart from a 2+1 stretch around castleblaney. I dont know why they didnt build 2+1 for the rest of the route

That's because the new N2 will be primarily commuter traffic to and from Finglas and Ashbourne which carries a lot of traffic on that stretch of road. Most of this traffic is local and the existing N2 adjacent to the new motorway standard route that you mentioned.

Secondly the M1 is now proved to be a better option if you wanted to head north


Thirdly the N33 was built mainly to link the N2 the M1 and direct heavy traffic away from the bad streches of road near collon and Slane.


Fourthly Asbourne M50 section has been on the planning boards for years
Whereas the 2+1 scheme is a relatively a new thing.

and finally its makes logical sense that they are upgrading the N2 north of ardee to the border to a 2+1 scheme, as this serves the purpose of the road as I just explained above. Look at the T21 map plan and you will see why there is certain streches of N2 being upgraded and other sections not. to tired to explain it better than that