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Strategic Proposals

The Regional Strategic Transport Network Transport Plan (RSTN TP)This link will open an external website in a new window. sets out how the RTS will be implemented: it envisages an investment of £769.5M in highway initiatives over the plan period. The RSTN TP confirms the individual schemes and projects to be implemented (subject to economic assessments, statutory processes and availability of resources) to support the RDS and RTS objectives and targets. The RSTN TP identifies a number of Strategic Road Improvements (SRIs) on the provinces key strategic road network.

RTS Strategic Road Improvement proposals

Strategic Road Improvement Map

The proposals seek to improve the provinces top teir of long distance routes connecting the cities and main towns to the major regional gateways and the Belfast Metropolitan Area (BMA). These Key Strategic Corridors are:

  • the Eastern Seaboard Corridor - road and rail links between BMA and Dublin and northward to Larne; improving access to Warrenpoint and Rosslare;
  • the North Western Corridor - links the BMA to Londonderry, strengthening access to Belfast International Airport;
  • the Northern Corridor - links the BMA to Antrim, Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine, Limavady and Londonderry by road and rail;
  • the Western Corridor - links west of Lough Neagh between Donegal, Londonderry, Strabane, Omagh, Monaghan and Dublin; and
  • the South Western Corridor - links the BMA to Craigavon, the Fermanagh Lakelands, the Sperrins and to important cross-border routes.