M12 motorway

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The M12 motorway (English for, highway M12 ') is a continuous four-lane motorway in Northern Ireland, which branches from the M1 at Craigavon ​​in a southerly direction.

History

In the 60's plans came up trying to avoid overpopulation Belfast by would create a new, planned city space outside the boundaries of Belfast. The project should be finally implemented in the space between the existing places Portadown and Lurgan. To avoid traffic problems from the beginning, the plan was a city highway in east-west direction along the new city. When they began the construction of the M1 in Belfast, was originally planned to connect the M1 directly with the planned urban motorway, so the motorway the western end of the M1 would have been.

The route for the M1 but was eventually moved to a few kilometers further north, so that they can continue west to Dungannon can. To connect the planned urban motorway yet with the M1, was built parallel to the expansion of M1 in the area of Craigavon ​​as the M12 motorway connection, which was opened in November 1967. As more and more began to emerge that the Northern Irish population would not work as expected explosive growth and the artificial city has experienced only a slight increase, was discarded in the 80s, the plans for the city highway completely. On the planned route of the city highway today runs mostly an easy road.

Expansion plans

The early 60s, there were still considerations to extend the M12 as a highway or freeway south to A3. Already in the late 60s was one of the plans and built instead just a simple country road on the planned route. Since there were no more expansion plans for now anyway transport connections relatively insignificant section of motorway. 1991 an additional ramp to the driveway was completed to the M1, so that you can now also switch from the west on the M12.

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