Debate contribution: Kilrea Bridge
Debate contribution by Mr Keith Buchanan on .
- MLA
- Mr Keith Buchanan
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 11 May 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Kilrea Bridge
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5523946
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Minister, on the topic of bridges, it is great to get Kilrea open. However, the traffic flows down into mid Ulster and then cannot get across a bridge with a weight restriction outside Coagh. It has had a 7·5 ton weight restriction for 11 years. Will you provide an update on that, please? I appreciate that you may not have the detail in front of you. It is killing farming and heavy transport. All the traffic goes through Coagh because of the weight restriction. We have had no answer for 11 years. We need the bridge to be upgraded.
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