Northern Ireland Infrastructure Minister has allocated a further £2.5m
for essential roads maintenance in this financial year. This is
an investment of over £40m since December in our roads.
Following the Ministers recent announcement of a £7.85m Winter
Recovery Road Fund and the 40 resurfacing schemes programmed
following the Minister's £30m December Monitoring Allocation,
this further funding will help to tackle the impact recent severe
weather conditions have had across our network.
Minister Kimmins said:
"I am committed to doing all I can to improve our roads and am
pleased today to confirm additional funding of £2.5m which will
be allocated for essential roads maintenance in this financial
year. Everyone will by now be all too aware of the toll on our
road network due to recent severe conditions. I recently
announced £7.85m for a Winter Recovery Fund to help us address
the worst affected areas as soon as possible.
“I had asked my officials to explore as a matter of urgency every
avenue to maximise our available workforce capacity to ensure we
are doing as much as we can. Following engagement with our
contractors we have secured additional capacity which will allow
us to carry out essential repairs across our roads divisions.
“I would encourage the public to continue to report potholes and
other surface defects via the online portal. We will continue to
inspect and make-safe defects by working to address the highest
priority defects as quickly as we can.”
Defects can reported online at - www.nidirect.gov.uk/services/report-pothole-or-other-surface-defect(external
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