TITANIC QUARTER EASTERN ACCESS ROAD 

TITANIC QUARTER EASTERN ACCESS ROAD

Client: Belfast Harbour

Location: Titanic Quarter, Belfast

Value: £2.3M 

Breedon were appointed Principal Contractor to deliver the Titanic Quarter Eastern Access Road in partnership with Belfast Harbour. The project, in this signature part of Belfast, increases active travel opportunities providing commuters, residents and visitors new pedestrian walkways and cycleways from Sydenham Road to Queens Island. The project also improves the operational capacity of the Queens Road / Sydenham Road / M3 off-slip junction, by providing an alternative access route to Hamilton Road and Queen’s Island. 

The project was located to the east of the Public Records Office of NI and ran through land previously associated with the shipbuilding industry and adjacent to the Harland & Wolff shipyard.  

The key deliverables for the project included:  

• Construction of approximately 500m of new four lane carriageway  
• Construction of over 600m of Active Travel routes 
• Management of poor ground conditions during earthworks activities  
• Provision of new highway storm and foul drainage 
• Diversion, alteration and protection of existing services  
• Surface overlay on the existing section of Sydenham Road; 
• Design, supply, installation and commissioning of MOVA type traffic signals at the Titanic Quarter Eastern Access Road and Sydenham Road Junction including all associated equipment and ducting; 
• Provision of a New Belfast Bike Station