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Speed limit sign on a single-carriageway road indicating a speed limit of 50 mph (80 km/h). The limits are posted on both sides of the road. Sign at the Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border indicating that limits in Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdom) are given in miles per hour, unlike those in the Republic, which are given in ...
The Common Travel Area between the UK and Ireland, EU integration and the demilitarisation of the border following the 1998 Good Friday Agreement resulted in an open border by default. [26] Following the Northern Ireland peace process, military electronic surveillance and permanent vehicle checkpoints have been replaced by routine PSNI patrols.
Numbered roads in the UK are signed as M (Motorway), A, [12] or B [12] roads (legal "classification" varies between countries), as well as various categories of more minor roads: for internal purposes, local authorities may also use C, [13] D [citation needed] and U [13] (the letter standing for "Unclassified"); use of C and U numbers on signs is unusual but examples can be found in all four ...
The route of the A1 in red from Belfast city centre (County Antrim) to the border at Carrickcarnan (County Louth). The A1 is a major route in Northern Ireland.It runs from Belfast via Lisburn and Banbridge to the border with the Republic of Ireland south of Newry, from where the road continues to Dublin, becoming the N1 road and M1 motorway.
A 30 mph speed limit reminder road sign. Used when there is insufficient street lighting for a road to legally have an automatic 30 mph speed limit. In the UK Highway Code for England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, a built-up area is a settled area in which the speed limit of a road is automatically 30 mph (48 km/h). In Wales it's 20 mph (32 ...
The rural speed limit sign consists of a 450mm diameter white disk with a black border and oblique parallel black bars (not to be confused with the "end of speed limit" sign in existence in Ireland prior to the 2004 Road Traffic Act, nor the "end of previously signed restrictions" sign used in mainland Europe). The design was chosen in order to ...
The M40 motorway links London, Oxford, and Birmingham in England, a distance of approximately 89 miles (143 km).. The motorway is dual three lanes except for junction 1A to junction 3 (which is dual four lanes) a short section in-between the exit and entry slip-roads at junction 4 (which is two lanes in both directions) and also between the slip-roads at junction 9 (in the south-eastbound ...
The original speed limit on the M50 was 70 mph (112 km/h). The Southern Cross Route from J12-J13 was given a lower limit of 60 mph (96 km/h), due to its more undulating, twisting route. 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 ...