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This was opened to traffic on 2 August 2007. Its length is 14 km (8.7 mi), 4.6 km (2.9 mi) north of the border and 9.4 km (5.8 mi) south of the border. This allows traffic to flow freely from Dublin Port on motorway/dual-carriageway standard road to the Hillsborough Roundabout, located south of Lisburn.
Motorways in Ireland have a set of restrictions, [4] which prohibit certain traffic from using the road. The following classes of traffic are not allowed on Irish motorways: Learner drivers; Slow vehicles (i.e. not capable of reaching 50 km/h (30 mph) on a level road) Invalid carriages (lightweight three-wheeled vehicles) Pedestrians
The route from J3-J13 was changed to 100 km/h after the Republic of Ireland's speed limits became metric in 2005, while the Southeastern Motorway section (J13-J17) became 120 km/h. The Airport Motorway-Port Tunnel section of the route from J1-J3 has a speed limit of 80 km/h due to the closely packed junctions and heavy volume of weaving traffic.
The section of the motorway bypassing Naas, an 8 km stretch, was the first section of motorway to open in Ireland, in 1983. Following substantial works to extend the M7 to Limerick, by the end of 2010, the motorway replaced all of the old single-carriageway N7 route which is now designated as R445 .
The M8 motorway (Irish: Mótarbhealach M8) is an inter-urban motorway in Ireland, which forms part of the motorway from the capital Dublin to Cork city.The 149 km motorway commences in the townland of Aghaboe, County Laois and runs through the counties of Kilkenny, Tipperary and Limerick, terminating at the Dunkettle interchange in Cork City.
Roads in Ireland; Motorways; Primary; Secondary; Regional; The N70 road is a national secondary road in Ireland. It comprises most of the Ring of Kerry. Route
Ireland was never part of the Roman Empire and, therefore, Roman roads were not built in Ireland. However, an Iron Age road with a stone surface has been excavated in Munster [ 2 ] and togher ( Irish : tóchar ) roads, a type of causeway built through bogs , were found in many areas of the country.
The Jack Lynch Tunnel (Irish: Tollán Sheáin Uí Loingsigh) is an immersed tube tunnel and an integral part of the N40 road network in Cork, Ireland.It is named after former Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, a native of Cork.