York Street Interchange
The Westlink, M2 and M3 motorways, which are key sections of the Strategic Road Network, are presently connected through a complex arrangement of traffic signals at York Street. This bottleneck presently causes significant congestion and delays for traffic travelling between Westlink and the M2 and M3 motorways at peak times. The junction will come under increased pressure to deal with traffic in the future. In preparation for this, Roads Service has developed preliminary proposals to provide a grade-separated junction at York Street that would provide direct links between Westlink and the M2 and M3 motorways and greatly improve access between these roads.
Plans to improve the York Street junction with Westlink are included in Department’s Investment Delivery Plan for Roads. This envisages the works being delivered between 2013/14 and 2017/18. As part of the ongoing scheme development process Roads Service has prepared a Preliminary Options Report (See the Scheme Information section on this page) that assesses 6 preliminary options for improving the York Street Junction with Westlink and recommends that 4 options are taken forward for more detailed assessment in the Preferred Options Report. Construction of the referred option will be dependent upon the successful completion of the necessary statutory procedures, a detailed economic appraisal and the availability of funding through the normal budgetary process.
Public Consultation
A public consultation was held on the 1st & 2nd June 2011. (For details click the link below.). The consultation period is now closed. A formal public consultation will be held following the publication of the preferred route.
Public consultation details. (212KB) 
An information leaflet was produced to coincide with the public consultation event. (For details click the link below.)
