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Allister presses North Antrim road schemes

20 May 2011

 TUV MLA Jim Allister has raised lack of progress on further dualling of the A26 and the Cullybackey by-pass with the new Roads Minister, Danny Kennedy.

 

In Questions to the Minister Mr Allister has urged him to scaleback the elaborate A5 (Dublin to Donegal motorway) and instead use the savings to advance far more deserving projects like the A26 and the bypass of chock-a-block Cullybackey.

 

Commenting Jim Allister said, “As part of his overtly political agenda the last DRD Minister, Sinn Fein’s Conor Murphy, made the hugely expensive A5 project his priority and in order to fund it scrapped several far more deserving schemes, including postponement of further upgrade to the A26.  The new Minister has an opportunity to right this wrong and, therefore, on the day he took office I raised these issues with him and I’ve followed it up with formal questions on the issues.

 

“If Minister Kennedy wants to make a difference for the better then he will direct the necessary funds into the A26 and Cullybackey schemes and thereby restore some balance to departmental spending. North Antrim’s roads needs were grossly neglected by the last Assembly and Executive. I will make sure their case does not go unheard in this Assembly.”

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