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Mr. Powell
asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will give an estimate of the respective cost of the proposed new single carriageway Loughbrickland-Newry road, and of the alternative of completing the dualisation of the existing road.
Mr. Carter
, pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 18 January 1979; Vol. 960, c. 860], gave the following information:The estimated cost of the proposed road works is £.4·7 million. These works will be mostly single carriageway but on the Tinker Hill section it is proposed that a second carriageway will be constructed to provide a short length of dual carriageway.The estimated cost of dualising the existing road would be £8·2 million.