To

The Minister for Infrastructure, the Minister of Finance and the Northern Ireland Executive

Northern Ireland’s roads have reached a crisis point.

The long-standing approach that focuses on only the highest-priority defects and often carries out the minimum work needed to remove immediate danger, rather than addressing deterioration in a planned, preventative way is clearly not working.

With DFI having to pay for damage done to vehicles because of the state of the roads, the system has collapsed.

We need a strategy that is measurable—clear priorities, properly costed actions, and time-bound delivery.  

We therefore call on the Executive to:
 1. Launch an emergency, time-limited “pothole blitz” programme focused on the worst-affected routes and areas, with publicly stated targets (repairs completed per week and average time to fix reports).

    2. Provide transparent reporting: a monthly dashboard for every council area showing defects recorded, repairs completed, average repair times, resurfacing completed and outstanding backlog.
 3. Shift from just patch to planned maintenance, prioritising resurfacing and structural repair where repeated patching wastes money.

Northern Ireland cannot function with roads that damage vehicles, delay workers, threaten cyclists and endanger pedestrians. We pay to use this network every day — and we are paying again through repair bills, lost time and avoidable accidents.

Sign this petition to demand a clear plan, real funding, and visible improvement — starting now.