Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order provides that—
the M1 motorway on- and off-slip roads described in Part I of Schedule 1, more particularly delineated and coloured purple on the maps, shall be special and trunk road and be part of the Belfast-Ballygawley-Londonderry-Land Frontier Trunk Road T3;
the M1 motorway and A12 on- and off-slip special roads described in Part II of Schedule 1, more particularly delineated and coloured yellow on the maps, shall be trunk road and be part of the Belfast-Ballygawley-Londonderry-Land Frontier Trunk Road T3;
A38 Lifford Road and parts of A2 Buncrana Road (including Skeoge Link roundabout, Branch Roundabout and Pennyburn Roundabout), A2 Strand Road, A2 Queen’s Quay (including Queens Quay roundabout and Harbour Square roundabout), A2 Foyle Embankment (including Foyleside Roundabout), A2 Foyle Road, A2 John Street (including Carlisle Square roundabout), A2 Craigavon Bridge (upper deck and lower deck including roundabout (lower deck, eastern side)), A2 slip road, A2 Duke Street, A5 Victoria Road, A5 Derry Road, A5 Bradley Way/Barnhill Road roundabout, A5 Bradley Way, A5 Melmount Road, A5 Mulvin Road, A5 Strabane Road, A5 GNR Way, A5 Beltany Road, A5 Derry Road roundabout A5 Great Northern Road, A5 Doogary Road, A5 Curr Road, A5 Omagh Road and A4 Ballygawley Roundabout, described in Part III of Schedule 1, more particularly delineated and coloured red on the maps, shall be trunk road and be part of the Belfast-Ballygawley-Londonderry-Land Frontier Trunk Road T3.
Lengths of the present Trunk Road T3 described in Part IV of Schedule 1, more particularly delineated and edged brown on the maps, shall cease to be trunk road.
The Order also amends the M1-M2 Link (Belfast) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003 to re-designate a length of M1 motorway as special and trunk road and part of A12 Westlink to be used by all classes of traffic except pedestrians and cyclists; re-describe a length of slip road and a length of segregated road; which together with associated amendments, more accurately describe the M1-M2 Link as constructed.
The Order revokes the Trunk Road T3 (Cabragh) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004, the provisions of which were not implemented.
In this Order, “map T3/1” to “map T3/11”, means the sequence of drawings numbered from T3/1 to T3/11, marked “The M1/Trunk Road T3 Order and M1-M2 Link (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) 2014” copies of which have been deposited at the Department’s Roads Service offices, Headquarters, Clarence Court, 10-18 Adelaide Street, Belfast BT2 8GB, Northern Division, County Hall, Castlerock Road, Coleraine BT51 3HS, Western Division, County Hall, Drumragh Avenue, Omagh BT79 7AF and Eastern Division, Hydebank, 4 Hospital Road, Belfast BT8 8JL.