Road not wide enough for prams to pass

In September 1969 a Finaghy housewife and mother of two small children challenged the logic behind and extensive new road system near their home.

Finaghy Road North had been reconstructed and widened but one part had been left untouched.

That was the bridge over the main Belfast - Lisburn railway line.

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The lady said the bridge was much too narrow to cope with the increasing flow of traffic on the road and the single footpath was quite inadequate and a real hazard.

She said: “I can’t understand why the council should go to the trouble of building the lovely new road then leave this narrow bridge as it is.

“Many mothers like myself are really concerned about their children having to use the bridge on the way to and from school.

“The footpath isn’t wide enough to take two prams on the roadway.”

As well as the flow of lorries from a new housing estate each day - the bridge became congested around 4pm when workers form a local engineering factory stopped work.

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