The ‘Alternative A5 Alliance’ (AA5A) was formed at a public meeting in Newtownstewart, on 5 December 2009, after the announcement of the ‘preferred route’ for the 86 kilometre long, 4-lane WTC, a limited-access dual carriageway.

The basis of the group’s objection is:

1. the proposal for a limited-access dual carriageway is outdated 1960s transport planning, out-of-step with present-day needs that must take account of the threat of Global Warming and

2. present traffic levels simply do not justify such a road and it will generate more traffic. 

Indeed, AA5A proposes a 3-lane road on the line of the existing A5 and a reinstated railway - a modern transport system, to constrain further growth of traffic on the A5 - to link with Belfast, Dublin, the airports and the rest of Ireland.  Most of the former railway track-bed yet exists.

For more information contact: Malcolm Lake, Press Officer, ‘Alternative A5 Alliance’, Malcolm.Lake9@gmail.com.