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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. It is 50.6 miles (81.4 km) long. Although not signposted in England, this road is part of the European route E15.
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.
While traffic using the M2 decreased when the M20 motorway was completed from London to Folkestone in May 1991, [19] traffic heading into North Kent remained, and congestion along the route was increasing, primarily due to heavy goods vehicles blocking the outside lane. [20]
The eastern end of the old by-pass is now the M20. The section between Maidstone and Ashford was the only link between the two separate sections of the M20 for 10 years during the 1980s, until the 14-mile (23 km) missing link of the motorway was completed in May 1991.
In the 1960s, two motorways were built; the M2 from Medway to Faversham, and the M20 from Swanley to Folkestone. Part of the M25 runs through Kent, from Westerham to the Dartford Crossing. The M26 motorway, built in 1980, provides a short link between the M25 at Sevenoaks and the M20 near Wrotham. Kent currently has more motorways by distance ...
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The A278 departs from the A2 to head south to meet the M2, [11] whereas the A2 goes through Rainham and Newington before entering green country for the first time since Three Crutches. The road meets the A249 , now dualled, to the west of Sittingbourne , before going through the town itself (bypassing the now-pedestrianised High Street, as it ...
All-time record lows are spread across December, January or February for many cities: Boston, New York City's Central Park and Philadelphia all set their records in a Feb. 9, 1934, cold outbreak ...