To ask the Minister for Infrastructure for an update on her Department’s plans to increase the provision of pop-up cycle lanes and similar initiatives in South Antrim.

The £20 million funding which I recently announced for blue / green infrastructure will support our communities through transformation, promoting active travel and shaping our places to live in the new normal. This funding will be community led and departmentally supported.

I am keen to see progress on better walking and cycling infrastructure throughout Northern Ireland and am currently considering the basis upon which funding may be allocated for walking and cycling infrastructure. I recently wrote to Councils seeking information on the status of their greenway projects.

No plans to implement pop up cycle lanes in the South Antrim constituency have been forwarded to my Department as yet. I can confirm, however, that in line with my commitment to improving walking and cycling infrastructure, my Department is currently developing a scheme to deliver a shared use footway / cycleway along the existing verge and hard shoulder on Paradise Walk and Parkgate Road, Antrim to improve pedestrian and cycle links between Templepatrick and Parkgate.