Explanatory note

This Order provides that approximately 2866 metres of new slip roads described in Part I of the Schedule and more particularly delineated and coloured green on the map shall become special roads subject to motorway traffic restrictions and be part of the Belfast-Ballygawley-Londonderry Trunk Road T3.

The Order also provides that approximately 1247 metres of new roads including two new roundabouts described in Part II of the Schedule and more particularly delineated and hatched red and a new underpass hatched yellow on the map shall become trunk roads and be part of the trunk road system.

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

The map referred to above means Drawing No. 5148.00/0125 marked “M1/A1 (Sprucefield Interchange) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003” copies of which have been deposited for inspection at the Department’s Roads Service offices; Headquarters, Room 201, Clarence Court, 10-18 Adelaide Street, Belfast BT2 8GB and Eastern Division, Hydebank, 4 Hospital Road, Belfast BT8 8JL.