AQW 51205/11-16

Mr Stewart Dickson
Alliance Party
East Antrim

Tabled Date: 20/11/2015
Answered On Date: 07/12/2015
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Regional Development to outline the logic of the road numbering system in Northern Ireland.

Answer:

Road classification dates back pre 1973 and consequently it has not been possible to locate any historic record of how the classification system was originally determined. Its use today is limited to route identification, and has no relevance to current funding allocations. Any new road outside a motorway would be classified on the basis of the comparable route classification in the area.