M2 motorway (Great Britain)
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The M2 motorway (English for, motorway M2 ' ) is a highway in the English county of Kent. It is 41.4 km long and is used for a section of A2 as a bypass. The M2 runs through the north of Kent, Sittingbourne and Faversham and is not linked as a single M- M highway with other highways.
The M2 is the only highway without a primary goal. To the west, the direction of travel is indeed " London" and signposted in an easterly direction " Canterbury, Channel Tunnel, Dover " as the goal, but the motorway is not even close to these destinations.
History
It was built to M2 in the 1960s, the ring road for Kent's north was built in 1963 and the rest 1965 The opening took place in three steps.:
It was planned to extend the road to London and Dover, to make the M2 to the main connection between London and the Channel ports, but this was never realized. Originally, the M2 as A2 ( M) should be called, but the Daily Telegraph described the road in his reports as M2, ie the Ministry of Transport changed the name in M2.
Connection enhancements
Until the 1990s, the M2 was not changed. When the M20 between London and Folkestone was completed in 1991, the traffic increased, and the M2 remained only as a bypass road for the north Kent. The connection point 1 has been removed, as the A289 ( Wainscott Bypass northeren ) was built in the late 1990s.
Extensions
The M2 was heavily burdened between junctions 1 and 4, so work began in 2000 to a four-lane motorway to expand to an eight-lane highway. The project required a change of terminals 1 and 3, and a second bridge over the River Medway. The existing bridge was converted into a four-lane, east running lane. The westward running road is formed by the new bridge. The complete section was illuminated. The expansion was completed in July 2003.