AQW 10180/17-22

Mr Andrew Muir
Alliance Party
North Down

Tabled Date: 12/11/2020
Answered On Date: 26/11/2020
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure what actions her Department intends to take to address the issue of speeding on the Old Belfast Road, Bangor.

Answer:

All requests for improvements to the road network, including the provision of traffic calming measures, are assessed in line with my Department’s current policies and guidance.

Officials have carried out a traffic calming assessment of this section of the Old Belfast Road, Bangor and I can confirm that a scheme at this location wouldn’t currently rank as highly as other sites in the Ards and North Down area competing for what is limited funding for works of this nature. I am also advised that a previous consultation on a traffic calming scheme incorporating road humps generated over 100 objections.

It is important where speeding is a problem, that residents contact the PSNI, as the authority responsible for enforcing speed limits, on its 101 number.