Explanatory note

This Order provides that the new underpass to take the M1 (T3) motorway under A12 Broadway roundabout together with two new bridges and an embankment, five sections of improved M1 (T3) motorway carriageway, seven sections of improved slip road and a small section of A12 Westlink shall be special road subject to motorway traffic restrictions and be part of the Belfast-Ballygawley-Londonderry Trunk Road T3.

The Order also provides that A12 Westlink, including seven slip roads and a new underpass to take A12 Westlink under B38 Grosvenor Road together with a length of segregated road shall be special road and may be used by all classes of traffic except pedestrians and cyclists. The Department is satisfied that alternative facilities for pedestrians and cyclists displaced from A12 Westlink will be provided.

The Order amends the Ml-M2 Link (Belfast) Order (Northern Ireland) 1983 to exclude cyclists from that section of A12 Westlink which is not the subject of this Order.

The Order also provides for the abandonment and stopping-up of certain roads.

Improved junctions and connecting roads at A55 (T14) Stockman’s Lane roundabout, A12 Broadway roundabout and B38 Grosvenor Road together with a reconstructed footbridge across A12 Westlink at U0637 Roden Street which are not the subject of the Order are shown coloured orange and hatched black respectively on the map for the purpose of clarification.

The map referred to above means Drawing No. M1WL/l1/1/4 marked “Ml-M2 Link (Belfast) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003” copies of which have been deposited for inspection at the Department’s Roads Service offices, Headquarters, Room 2-0l, Clarence Court, 10-18 Adelaide Street, Belfast BT2 8GB and Eastern Division, Hydebank, 4 Hospital Road, Belfast BT8 8JL.