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October 16th, 2020 TO: The Right Worshipful the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council A remote Meeting of Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council will be held on Monday, 19th October 2020 at 6:00 pm in the Council Chamber for the transaction of the business on the undernoted Agenda. For those Members accessing this meeting remotely, an invitation has been furnished to you via a Zoom meeting request which you should have received in your Outlook mail box. You are requested to attend. DAVID BURNS CHIEF EXECUTIVE LISBURN & CASTLEREAGH CITY COUNCIL Agenda 1.0 APOLOGIES 2.0 DECLARATIONS OF MEMBERS' INTERESTS (i) Conflict of Interest on any matter before the meeting (Members to confirm the specific item) (ii) Pecuniary and non-pecuniary interest (Member to complete the Disclosure of Interest form) 3.0 DEPUTATIONS 3.1 At 6.00 pm - Department for Infrastructure (Roads) 3.2 At 7.00 pm - NI Water - Update on Infrastructure Plans Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) i ii CONTENTS PAGE FOREWORD BY DIVISIONAL ROADS MANAGER v 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 2.0 NETWORK DEVELOPMENT / STRATEGIC ROAD IMPROVEMENTS 3 2.1 M1/A1 Link at Sprucefield 4 2.2 M1 Bus Lanes 4 2.3 A1 Junctions – Phase 2 5 2.4 A1 Hillsborough to Sprucefield 5 2.5 Minor Works 6 2.6 Maintenance of Structures 6 3.0 NETWORK TRAFFIC AND STREET LIGHTING 9 3.1 Collision Remedial Schemes 10 3.2 20 MPH School Speed Limits 10 3.3 Pedestrian Measures 11 3.4 Traffic Schemes 11 3.5 Traffic Signs and Information 11 3.6 Dropped Kerbs/Mobility Ramps 13 3.7 Carriageway Markings 14 3.8 Legislation 14 3.9 Disabled Parking Bays 15 3.10 Traffic calming 16 3.11 Cycle Measures 16 3.12 Car Parking 17 3.13 Street Lighting 17 3.14 Transportation 20 4.0 NETWORK TRANSPORT TELEMATICS 21 4.1 Network Transport Telematics 22 5.0 NETWORK MAINTENANCE 25 5.1 Carriageway Resurfacing 26 5.2 Footway Resurfacing 27 5.3 Surface Dressings 28 5.4 Drainage 31 5.5 Verge Strengthening Schemes 32 5.6 Carriageway Refurbishment 33 5.7 Liaison with Utilities 33 6.0 NETWORK PLANNING 35 6.1 Adoptions 36 6.2 Planning Applications 36 iii iv FOREWORD BY THE EASTERN DIVISIONAL ROADS MANAGER Kevin Monaghan Divisional Roads Manager Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors I am very pleased to present my Autumn Report on Department for Infrastructure Roads Eastern work to Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council. This has been an unprecedented year, due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, I am pleased to advise that our contractors have been working hard again since May to complete the schemes that had to be stopped due to the restrictions and we are now implementing our 2020/21 works programme. Since 2013 the Department for Infrastructure’s baseline Resource budget has been insufficient to meet its needs and we have relied on in-year funding to deliver core services, including public transport and winter gritting. This continues to be the case for 2020/21. In Capital terms, the 2020/ 21 budget is similar to last year, with almost 70% of this budget taken up with committed or priority projects, leaving insufficient budget to meet the Department’s responsibilities as custodian of some £40 billion of public assets, which includes the Water and Sewerage network as well as Roads and Public Transport. In the current year we are pleased to welcome a similar level of initial funding for Structural Maintenance when compared to last year, with £75m allocated, of which £12m has been set aside for a ‘roads recovery fund’. While this level of investment is welcome, it still falls far short of the £143 million required annually to maintain the road network in a reasonable condition. Also, additional Capital funding is being made available for walking and cycling and safer routes to schools. This will allow introduction of further extensions to our cycling network and provision of part-time 20mph speed limits at a number of schools in the Lisburn and Castlereagh areas. The opening allocation for routine maintenance (Resource funding) is also similar to that for 2020/21 and I am pleased to report that our Minister has allocated sufficient funding to provide a full street lighting repair service for the entire year. We are also able to repair defects greater than 50mm on all roads and undertake two cuts of grass on roadside verges between April and October. I hope that you find this report informative. The Department values constructive comment on all its activities and I, along with Section Engineers, Gabriel Doherty and Graeme Salmon, look forward to meeting the Council by video link on 19 October 2020. Kevin Monaghan v vi 1.0 INTRODUCTION Eastern Division is part of the Roads structure, within the Department for Infrastructure, made of separate business units (within Network Services Directorate) for those who order services and for those who provide services in the Engineering Directorate ((Design & Consultancy Services and Operations & Maintenance) (see figure 1 below). Figure 1 – Organisation Context 1 Eastern Division Management Structure Kevin Monaghan (90526140) [email protected] Divisional Roads Manager Philip Robinson (90526183) [email protected] Network Traffic and Street Lighting Traffic Management minor improvements, pedestrian priority, traffic orders, signing, collision remedial schemes, Street Lighting, resident and disabled parking, car parks and pay and display spaces, cycling and traffic calming. BRT infrastructure delivery and QBC & bus priority, ‘Park and Ride schemes. Lionel Walsh (90526273) [email protected] Network Planning Development Control, Private Streets and Transport Assessments Roy Gordon (9025 4500) [email protected] Network Transport Telematics Traffic signal control, operation of the Traffic Information and Control Centre, Traffic and travel information and European projects INSTANT and STREETWISE. Attracta Tremers (90526145) [email protected] Business Support Financial control, land acquisition and disposal, retained human resources, building management and office supplies, council reports, business plan and communications. (90526177) [email protected] Colin Sykes Network Development / Strategic Route Improvements Minor works programme, maintenance and strengthening of structures, Forward Planning, Developing and progressing Strategic Highway Improvements within Eastern Division Trevor McClay (Acting) (90554019) [email protected] Network Maintenance Maintenance of adopted roads and footways including inspections, resurfacing, drainage, grass cutting and weed control, winter gritting and liaison with the utility companies. 2 2.0 NETWORK DEVELOPMENT/STRATEGIC ROAD IMPROVEMENTS Principal Engineer – Colin Sykes (9052 6177) [email protected] He is supported by the following staff: Works and Structures - Nigel McKeown (9052 6171) [email protected] This team is responsible for minor road improvement works and Structures. Strategic Road Improvement 2 – Basil Hassard (9052 6168) [email protected] Basil is responsible for development of the M1 & M2 Busways scheme, A55 Knock Road widening, M1 / A1 Link at Sprucefield and the Sydenham By-pass scheme. Basil is supported by David McConnell (ext 26170). Strategic Road Improvement 1 – post currently vacant This team is responsible for progressing the development of the York Street Interchange Scheme and Tillysburn Park & Ride scheme. Currently these are being dealt with by Basil Hassard and David McConnell. 3 2.1 M1/A1 LINK AT SPRUCEFIELD The Regional Development Strategy (RDS) identifies the M1 and A1 as one of the five key transport corridors, by forming part of the Eastern Seaboard Corridor, running from Larne to Belfast and on to Dublin. The Belfast Metropolitan Transport Plan (BMTP) also recognises the strategic significance of this route and the existing congestion problems on the M1 and at the M1/A1 junction. The proposed scheme, which is included in the Strategic Road Improvement Programme, will provide a high standard link between the M1 motorway and the A1. It will be of major benefit to the strategic traffic in reducing journey times by addressing delays in the Sprucefield area. It is intended that the proposal will also consider congestion at the roundabout junction on the A1 at Hillsborough. DfI Roads commissioned consultants to consider a range of options and an evaluation of all of the viable options for capacity enhancement along this route. The first stage of this work has been completed and the findings published in a Stage 1 Report, which determined route corridors within which further options will be examined. Transport Plans are being prepared for future Local Development Plans and this scheme will be considered as part of that process. There is no further development work on this scheme being carried out at present. 2.2 M1 BUS LANES This scheme extends the hard shoulder bus lanes along the M1 motorway by adding 1.7 km of new bus lanes. These extend from the approach to Junction 8 at Blaris to Junction 7 at Sprucefield. This adds to bus lanes that were introduced on the M1 and M2 motorways in March 2019 and completes the provision of M1 hard shoulder bus lanes between Sprucefield Park & Ride and Belfast. Work commenced in the week beginning 27 January 2020 and was expected to last approximately 3 months. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic work was halted on 27 March 2020, however, it recommenced in May 2020 and the extended bus lanes opened on 10 August 2020. The work was carried out by Graham Construction. This investment of £1.1 million has been provided to help promote and encourage the use of public transport for travel into Belfast. It reflects the Department’s policy to promote sustainable transport and assist key bus service routes into Belfast.