Editorial: Derry's roads need urgent attention
At a recent special meeting with local elected representatives, Roads Service outlined a wide range of local projects and improvements, all of which were very welcome. Not before time, the Bogside Residents Parking Scheme is now being revitalised.
But it also came to light that there were now over 3,000 potholes in the local Council area. That should be a shocking statistic but it will come as little surprise to all of us who regularly traverse the road network here.
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Hide AdThe A2 Buncrana Road dualling project meanwhile is now under review once more, at a time when hundreds of new homes are being built along this main cross-border route. It is hard to believe that this scheme has been decades in the making and yet construction work still seems a long, long way off.
It is heartening that the new Infrastructure Minister, like his recent predecessors, seems to have taken onboard the disparities in roads and other infrastructure east and west, and the commitment of the Roads Service to do all they can to improve the network with limited resources is commendable. The chance to really get to grips with all these issues and to deliver multi-year funding however is, like so much else here, hampered by the lack of a restored NI Executive. So we can add our roads to the growing list of pressing issues that will have to be kicked down the can.