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It is the longest motorway in Northern Ireland and runs for 38 miles (61 km) from Belfast to Dungannon through County Antrim, County Down, County Armagh and County Tyrone. It forms part of the route via the A1 in Northern Ireland ( N1/M1 in the Republic of Ireland ) between Belfast and Dublin as well as being a part of the unsigned European E01 ...
The motorway network is focused on Belfast. Legal authority for motorways existed in the Special Roads Act of 1963 similar to that in the Special Roads Act 1949 in Great Britain. [4] The first motorway to open was the M1 motorway, though it did so under temporary powers until the Special Roads Act had been passed. [5]
The M2 is a motorway in Belfast and County Antrim in Northern Ireland.It is in two sections, the southern section running from north Belfast to Antrim and the northern section acts as a bypass of Ballymena, with the A26 road linking the two sections.
M1 motorway (Northern Ireland) M12 motorway; Belfast Urban Motorway; M2 motorway (Northern Ireland) M22 motorway (Northern Ireland) M3 motorway (Northern Ireland) M5 motorway (Northern Ireland) A8(M) motorway (Northern Ireland)
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). The motorway network consists entirely of motorway-grade dual carriageways and is largely focused upon Dublin.
English: The M1 motorway of Northern Ireland highlighted against the motorways of the United Kingdom in 2016. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum.
The M5 is a 1.4-mile-long (2.3 km) spur motorway in north Belfast, Northern Ireland. It connects the M2 to the A2 Shore Road at Hazelbank in Newtownabbey . It is a dual two lane road with most of the road on a causeway in Belfast Lough in order to bypass Whitehouse beach.
Roads in Northern Ireland are classified as either Highways, motorways (shown by the letter M followed by a route number, e.g. M1), A-roads (shown by the letter A followed by a route number, e.g. A6), B-roads (shown by the letter B followed by a route number, e.g. B135) and other roads. There are two types of A-roads: primary and non-primary.