Introducing the Strangford Lough Crossing Public Debate A new public forum for open questions, evidenced answers, and a fair hearing for the case for a fixed crossing of Strangford Lough. Click on image above for access to forum. By Kevin Barry BSc(Hons) MRICS, QUINTIN QS — 11 June 2026 For the past two years I […]
Click on image above for Feasibility Dashboard Update: 8th June 2026 – Ferry re-classification – a quiet change and what it may mean Now mentioning something which the Department for Infrastructure did, quietly, in October 2023: it moved responsibility for the Strangford Lough Ferry out of the part of the Department that looks after roads, […]
An AI generated look into the future ! The Ards Peninsula: A Case File On Managed Decline For over sixty years the Strangford Lough question has been framed the same way: can we justify a fixed crossing? The wrong question. The correct question : What is the running cost of doing nothing, and who is […]
Portavogie Harbour A Portavogie Parent’s Question: How Does Our Child Get a Good Education — and Come Home to Build Something? Kevin Barry BSc(Hons) MRICS — strangfordloughcrossing.org In an earlier piece this week I argued that the case for a Strangford Lough crossing is, at heart, a case about option value — the value of keeping doors open for […]
Strangford Lough Crossing: Keeping Our Options Open When we talk about a bridge or tunnel across Strangford Lough, most people understandably ask one question first: “Will enough people use it?”. That matters – but it isn’t the whole story. Big, long‑lived projects like this are also about something simpler and more human: keeping our options […]
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STRANGFORD LOUGH CROSSING CAMPAIGN From the Front Pages of Today to the Front Pages of 2032 The Ards Chronicle placed the campaign on its front page on 12 March 2026. Six years from now, three of Northern Ireland’s leading newspapers could carry a very different story — if the Department for Infrastructure acts now. Kevin […]
Paying for Nothing — Every Single Year Position Paper | Strangford Lough Crossing Campaign | June 2026 The public funds a ferry subsidy of £2.09 million a year. It creates no asset, serves a capped timetable, and is used to argue against the crossing that would replace it. This has to stop. Key figures On […]
Three Lough Ferries — What Population Does to Viability, and What That Means for Any Future Crossing Published: May 2026 | Author: Kevin Barry BSc(Hons) MRICS | Category: Latest News Northern Ireland is served by three lough ferry crossings: Strangford Lough, Carlingford Lough, and Lough Foyle. All three operate under broadly similar conditions — short sea crossings linking communities on […]
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