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The M20 is a motorway in Kent, England. It follows on from the A20 at Swanley , meeting the M25 , and continuing on to Folkestone , providing a link to the Channel Tunnel and the ports at Dover .
North of Folkestone the M20 becomes a dual carriageway and enters the Roundhill Tunnel before crossing over and dropping down into Dover. This part of the A20 was completed in 1993 as a project included in the Parliamentary Bill for the Channel Tunnel. [ 6 ]
M20: A west-east motorway linking London to Folkestone and the Channel Tunnel. 120,348 50.6 81.4 M23: A north-south motorway linking London to Gatwick Airport and Crawley. Surrey, West Sussex: 110,574 15.9 25.6 M25: A ring road of London numbered clockwise from Dartford. Kent, Surrey, Berkshire, Greater London, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire ...
The M20 runs between the M25 and Folkestone, with a section of the A20 dual carriageway making up the last few miles to Dover. Effectively the motorway has carried nearly all cross channel traffic to and from the Port of Dover and the Channel Tunnel since the late 1990s.
Folkestone services is a motorway service station on the M20 motorway at Westenhanger, seven miles from Folkestone in Kent, England.It was the second to be built on the motorway, and was opened on 9 January 2008.
The route continues north of the M20 and terminates at a roundabout on the A28 in Kennington. In 2003 the road became part of the South Coast trunk road, a status previously held by the A259 from Brenzett to Folkestone. M20 Junction 10A (Sevington Interchange) opened in late 2019 and includes a spur of the A2070. [5]
The A20 ran to Eltham, Wrotham, Maidstone, Charing, Ashford, Hythe, Folkestone and Dover. The A21 ran to Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, and Tunbridge Wells. [1] With the increased traffic on these roads, the main towns were bypassed; and then in the 1960s two motorways were built: the M2 from Medway to Faversham, and the M20 from Swanley
The M20 crosses the north of the District to end at Folkestone, carrying traffic from London, M25 and Maidstone to the district. Also following the M20 is the A20 which goes by nearby villages in the district. The A20 also continues onto Dover.