New and Future Road Schemes - Northern Ireland Roads Site

New or Future Road Schemes

To help you find schemes in your area a indicates Greater Belfast and Lisburn, a for counties Armagh & Down, a for counties Tyrone & Fermanagh and a for counties Londonderry & Antrim. If you know of work taking place on local road schemes, please let me know. This icon indicates pages which have a strip map illustrating the junctions on the new road.

Completed Schemes are listed here.

Currently Under Construction

A6 dualling - M22 to Castledawson Updated 6 Oct

Belfast Rapid Transit System completed Updated 17 Sep

Newtownards Movilla Road to Donaghadee Road and Bangor Road Link .

Omagh: Strathroy Link Road .

A6 dualling - Dungiven to Londonderry Updated 6 Oct

M1 and M2 hard shoulder busways (2018) .

Schemes due to start within the next 12 months or so

M2 Templepatrick (Southbound) Service Area .

A5 dualling Newbuildings - N of Strabane (page to track construction of this stretch - expected 2019) Updated 24 May

A32 Omagh - Enniskillen at Cornamuck (due Jun 2019) .

Schemes in Planning

Schemes listed here are being actively planned.

M2/M3 to A12 Westlink flyover link, York Street, Belfast (expected 2019) Updated 12 Aug

A1 Junctions Phase 2 (expected 2020) Updated 23 Jun

A1-A2 Newry Southern Relief Road (A1 to Warrenpoint Road) (2024 or later) .

A2 Sydenham Bypass - widening (after 2020) .

A2 Sydenham Bypass - new grade-separated junction at Connsbank (unknown timescale)

A2 widening L'Derry, Buncrana Road from Pennyburn to border (2022/23 to 2025/26) .

A2 Ballykelly Bypass (at least ten years away)

A3 Armagh north and west link (after 2020) .

A4 Enniskillen Southern Bypass (due 2020) Updated 23 Jun

A4 Enniskillen Throughpass Improvements .

A5 dualling Londonderry-Aughnacloy (page about overall A5 scheme) .

A5 dualling S of Omagh-Ballygawley (page to track construction of this stretch - expected 2019) .

A5 Strabane to N14/N15 Lifford link road (unknown timescale) .

A24 Ballynahinch Bypass (expected June 2020) Updated 23 Jun

A28 Armagh East Link (after 2020) .

A29 Cookstown Bypass (after 2020) Updated 21 Jul

A32 Omagh - Enniskillen various upgrades (multiple schemes) .

A55 Outer Ring at Knock - widening (unknown timescale)

A505 Sandholes Link Road, Cookstown (unknown timescale)

B170 Craigantlet Crossroads Upgrade (unknown timescale) .

Ballyclare Western Relief Road (unknown timescale) .

Belfast: Queen's Quay road upgrade (unknown timescale) .

Belfast: Lagan Footbridge (unknown timescale) .

Larne West Distributor (South) (half completed; unknown timescale for remainder) .

Lisburn: Pond Park Road realignment (North Lisburn Feeder Road) (unknown, perhaps 2018 or 19) .

Narrow Water Bridge - county Down to county Louth (expected 2019) .

Rapid Transit Enabling Measures, Belfast (By 2017)

Schemes to Proceed within 10 Years

Schemes listed here are definite plans by Roads Service, but have not as yet proceeded into the formal legal, design or land acquisition phases. They are planned for implementation "within the next ten years or so".

M1 west-facing sliproads at Black's Road (junction 3)

M1 to A1 link, Sprucefield + grade separation of Hillsborough roundabout .

M2 Sandyknowes (junction 4) to A8(M) direct link

A3 dualling - Portadown to Richill

A4 Fivemiletown Bypass

A26 dualling - Ballymoney to Coleraine

A26 "2+1" upgrades Nutt's Corner to M1 junction 9 (Moira)

Belfast: Streets Ahead Enabling Measures Phase 2 .

City Centre Ring Road South, Belfast .

Newtownabbey: Mayfield Link Road Completion (Mallusk to Upper Hightown Road)

Schemes Planned by Government in the Long Term

Schemes listed here are in the Belfast Metropolitan Area Plan 2015, or referred to in other official documents, but implementation is expected to be more than ten years in the future.

M1 widening - Black's Road (junction 3) to Sprucefield (junction 7)

M2 Sandyknowes Relief Junction with new access to Mallusk and A8

A2 Greysteel Bypass

A2 Newry Southern Relief Road (A1 to Warrenpoint Road) .Updated 6 Oct

A3 Northway junction improvement, Portadown

A3 Armagh southwest link (Killylea Rd to Monaghan Rd)

A4 "2+1" sections, Ballygawley to Enniskillen

A57 M2 to Belfast International Airport Link Road .

Transforming the Inner Ring, Belfast .

Blacks' Road Link: Upper Malone Road, Belfast to M1 junction 3

Carrickfergus: Victoria Road extension

Carrickfergus Spine Road and Sloefield Road extensions