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Description of Scheme

 

The Regional Strategic Transport Network Transport Plan (RSTN TP) 2015 includes for the improvement of the A2 Buncrana Road, Derry between the Pennyburn Roundabout and the Border.

Buncrana Road is part of the North Western Key Transport Corridor connecting Belfast to Londonderry and on to Donegal.

The Buncrana Road carries around 17,000 vehicles per day 2-way on the urban section with peak traffic approaching 1400 vehicles per hour in the pm. The busiest section of the road – Pennyburn Roundabout to Springtown Road suffers from traffic congestion and delays occurring at peak periods on every weekday. The rural section of the road carries around 14,000 vehicles per day 2-way.

The proposal would improve traffic flows on Buncrana Road by widening the 4.5 kilometres of single lane carriageway to achieve 2 traffic lanes in each direction between Pennyburn Roundabout and the border. The carriageway widening may mostly be on line but consideration is to be given to partial off-line at the eastern end of the corridor between Pennyburn Pass and Racecourse Road or Springtown Road. Part of the rural section between Skeoge Roundabout and the border may be dual carriageway.

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Progress Report @ 15 April 2008

 

A free public exhibition of the possible routes being examined was held in the Ramada Da Vinci’s Hotel from the 1st to the 3rd April 2008. This allowed the public to examine the possible routes and to speak on a one to one basis with staff from Roads Service and their advisors. The event concluded with a public meeting giving local residents, business representatives, elected representatives and others a further opportunity to express their local knowledge, advice and concerns about the proposals. Visitors were also encouraged to register their comments and/or concerns by completing a questionnaire available at the exhibition.

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April 2007 Community Consultation Event

  

Community consultation events provide an opportunity for the public to meet members of the design team from Roads Service and their consultants Faber Maunsell and at the same time to provide feed back to the team as the scheme develops. The first Community Consultation Event event took place on Wednesday 18 April 2007 and Thursday 19 April 2007 at the Ramada Da Vinci's Hotel, Culmore Road, Londonderry. The event was tremendously well attended and Roads Service would like to thank all those who attended and provided feedback through the comments cards.

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Stage 1 Scheme Assessment Report (SAR 1).

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April 2008 Community Consultation Event

  

A free public exhibition of the possible routes being examined was held in the Ramada Da Vinci’s Hotel from the 1st to the 3rd April 2008. This allowed the public to examine the possible routes and to speak on a one to one basis with staff from Roads Service and their advisors. The possible routes take full account of the urban and rural nature of the existing road, topography, environment and other constraints.

Pennyburn Roundabout and Springtown Road — three possible routes were examined:

  • Red Route: widening the existing road to provide two lanes of traffic in each direction.
  • Blue Route: a new 2 lane road off-line from Pennyburn Pass to Springtown Road carrying country bound traffic and the existing Buncrana Road from Springtown Road to Pennyburn Pass carrying city bound traffic.
  • Purple Route: new 4 lane road off-line from Pennyburn Pass to Springtown Road, with the existing Buncrana Road from Pennyburn Pass to Springtown Road becoming a local street providing access to houses and businesses.

Springtown Road to Skeoge Roundabout — one possible was examined:

  • Continuation of Red Route: widening the existing road to provide two lanes of traffic in each direction.

Skeoge Roundabout to the Border — one possible route was examined:

  • Navy Route: Upgrading the existing road to dual carriageway standard. Also includes a new roundabout at Elagh Business Park maintaining the connections north east to the business park and north west to the border and providing a new link south west to Coshquin Road.

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Welcome to the exhibition   Introduction   Red Route   Traffic Movements - Red Route   Blue Route   Traffic Movements Blue Route   Purple Option

Traffcic Movements Purple Route   Springtown Road to Skeoge Roundabout   Traffci Movements - Springtown Road to Skeoge Roundabout   Navy Route   Traffic Movements - Navy Route   Typical Cross Section   What happens next

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Preferred Route Announced

  

Regional Development Minister, Conor Murphy has announced the preferred route for the proposed improvements to Buncrana Road in Londonderry. Speaking on Tuesday 10 February 2009, the Minister said “I am pleased to report that Roads Service has completed the important route assessment stage of the proposed improvements to Buncrana Road in Derry. I can confirm that the result of extensive consideration is that the improvements will be carried out on-line along the entire route between Pennyburn Roundabout and the border”.

The preferred route (294kb)This link will open a new window.opens in a pdf file is in two parts:

  • The red route widens the existing road between Pennyburn Roundabout and Skeoge Roundabout to 4 lanes, providing 2 lanes of traffic in each direction.
  • The navy route widens the existing road between Skeoge Roundabout and the Border with the Republic of Ireland to dual carriageway standard.

The preferred route is the culmination of the Stage 1 and Stage 2 assessments as presented at the public consultation events held in April 2007 and April 2008 respectively and has been assessed against the five Government objectives for transport: Environment, Safety, Economy, Accessibility and Integration.

The A2 Buncrana Road improvement scheme is contained in the Investment Strategy for Northern Ireland and is one of a number of schemes included in the programme of Strategic Road Improvements that are proposed over the next 10 years to 2017/18. Work is not expected to commence until the latter part of the Plan period.

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Stage 2 Scheme Assessment Report (SAR 2)

  

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