{"id":212051,"date":"2025-06-25T03:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T03:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/212051\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T03:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T03:03:12","slug":"a5-ruling-could-impact-all-major-road-projects-in-ni-warns-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/212051\/","title":{"rendered":"A5 ruling could impact all major road projects in NI, warns expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The A5 carriageway in Northern Ireland between Strabane and Omagh (Kevin Scott\/Belfast Telegraph)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/b9840e7d-d718-4c69-a6ea-9cb6607d4aee.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The A5 carriageway in Northern Ireland between Strabane and Omagh (Kevin Scott\/Belfast Telegraph)<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A leading roads expert has warned that all major transport projects in the pipeline in Northern Ireland, worth hundreds of millions, are at risk following Monday\u2019s court ruling on the A5 upgrade scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Wesley Johnston said planned projects like the A29 Cookstown Bypass, the Newry Southern Relief Road and A1 Junctions Phase Two could now be open to court challenges under Stormont\u2019s Climate Change Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The A5 carriageway in Northern Ireland between Strabane and Omagh (Kevin Scott\/Belfast Telegraph) A leading roads expert has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[6571,2311,84491,1817,1144,1210,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-212051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-andrew-madden","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-department-for-infrastructure","11":"tag-derry-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-tyrone-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114741785858639827","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}