It could be the summer before a long-delayed new road between Londonderry and Dungiven opens, a DUP MP has been told
"When I wrote [to department officials] just after the Covid lockdown came in, I asked if the restrictions would impinge on the road opening date and, in writing, I got an answer back to say they had looked into that and it wouldn't, that it should open in the spring of '22.The head of a Dungiven community group said there have been two consecutive weekends of major traffic disruption around the town.
"Last Friday there were two sets of traffic management schemes in Dungiven, with four-mile tailbacks," she said."We're concerned that there's no transparency as to why the bypass has not been opened. We are taxpayers, we should be informed as to why there are issues and what the issues are."High levels of nitrogen dioxide - a pollutant closely associated with road traffic - have been detected in the town in the past.
"There are a lot of people who have chest conditions because of the levels of pollution in Dungiven," Ms McCormack said. "There's no reason why there couldn't be an information stand in our office or the library. We don't know if it's Stormont's not operating at the moment."In a previous statement, the department said a number of items such as road signage and safety barriers had to be completed on the A6, which would then be subject to a safety audit.
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