£30.5million spent on local roads in the past year

By The Newsroom
Published 15th Jun 2016, 15:41 BST
Updated 25th Aug 2016, 19:52 BST
The £540,000 upgrade of the junction of the B62 Cullybackey Road/Woodtown Road, Ballymena, is expected to be completed by the end of June. (Submitted Picture).The £540,000 upgrade of the junction of the B62 Cullybackey Road/Woodtown Road, Ballymena, is expected to be completed by the end of June. (Submitted Picture).
The £540,000 upgrade of the junction of the B62 Cullybackey Road/Woodtown Road, Ballymena, is expected to be completed by the end of June. (Submitted Picture).
Over £30million has been spent in the past year on road schemes in the Mid & East Antrim borough by the Northern Ireland Executive.

Presenting Transport NI’s Northern Division annual report for 2016-17 to the borough Council’s Community Planning Committee June meeting in Ballymena on Tuesday night, Northern Division Network Development Manager, Alan Keys, told members that the recent announcement from the Finance Minster of an additional £28million for the department was “a welcome boost” and it was expected a significant part of the funding would be used to improve rural roads and roads maintenance.

He said investment of more than £30million in Mid and East Antrim over the past year included work on a number of significant strategic road improvements such as dualling schemes on the A26 Frosses Road, A6 Randalstown to Castledawson, A2 Shore Road and A8 Belfast to Larne route.

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