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HQDCs have a hard shoulder marked with a broken yellow line (as is standard on Irish roads), rather than the solid yellow line used to mark the hard shoulder of an Irish motorway. Also, L-Drivers ( Learner Drivers ), who are not permitted to drive on motorways can do so on high-quality dual carriageways, as on the rest of the national road network.
A shoulder (American English), hard shoulder (British English) [1] or breakdown lane (Australian English) is an emergency stopping lane by the verge on the outer side of a road or motorway. Many wider freeways , or expressways elsewhere have shoulders on both sides of each directional carriageway—in the median, as well as at the outer edges ...
All public roads which are not motorways, national roads or regional roads are local roads: "a public road, other than a national road or a regional road, shall be a local road". [ 23 ] Local roads vary greatly in quality, from wide urban streets to very narrow, rural lanes, known as boreens in Ireland.
National Roads Network as of 2018 (note that the M17 north of the M6 is incorrectly marked as M18) In Ireland, the highest category of road is a motorway (mótarbhealach, plural: mótarbhealaí), indicated by the prefix M followed by a one- or two-digit number (the number of the national route of which each motorway forms a part).
A national secondary road (Irish: Bóthar Náisiúnta den Dara Grád) is a category of road in Ireland. These roads form an important part of the national route network but are secondary to the main arterial routes which are classified as national primary roads. National secondary roads are designated with route numbers higher than those used ...
Until 1977, classified roads in the Republic of Ireland were designated with one of two prefixes: "T" for Trunk Roads and "L" for Link Roads.The Local Government (Roads and Motorways) Act authorised the designation of roads as National roads: in 1977, twenty-five National Primary roads (N1-N25) and thirty-three National Secondary roads (N51-N83) were initially designated under Statutory ...
The R136 road is a regional road in Ireland, located in the southwest of Dublin. Named the Outer Ring Road , the route, which is dual carriageway , runs from the N4 at Lucan to the N81 at Tallaght , bypassing west of Clondalkin (around Grange Castle) and crossing the N7 near Citywest .
The N11 road is a national primary road in Ireland, running for 129 km (80 mi) along the east side of Ireland from Dublin to Wexford. [1] It passes close to Bray, Greystones, Wicklow, Arklow, Gorey, and Enniscorthy. Beyond Wexford, the route continues to Rosslare as the N25. The road forms part of European route E01.