AQW 10180/17-22 Written question to the Minister for Infrastructure
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.
Asked by Andrew Muir MLA on 12 November 2020
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 12 November 2020
- Answer due by
- 27 November 2020
- Answered
- 26 November 202014 days after tabling
- Department
- Department for Infrastructure
- Priority question
- No
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.