M12 (Northern Ireland)
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From: | M1 J11 (J031587) | |||||||||
To: | Craigavon (J021564) | |||||||||
Distance: | 1.9 miles (3.1 km) | |||||||||
Meets: | M1, B2, A3 | |||||||||
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Route
The M12 is a short motorway spur near Craigavon.
It starts on the M1 to the north of Craigavon city centre. This junction is a modified roundabout interchange: the four slip roads meet at a small roundabout on the southern side of the M1, thus making it appear as though there is a roundabout on the mainline of the M12. This layout is due to the fact that the junction was built with only east-facing sliproads - the others were added later. However, according to signage, the west-facing sliproads are indeed sliproads whereas the east-facing sliproads are the mainline of the M12.
From the roundabout, the M12 heads southwest to go over the B2 before bending to the left (remarkably sharply for a motorway) to a junction with that road, in the usual form of a roundabout interchange. The motorway then loses its central reservation and becomes S2. Then - and only then - does the road lost motorway status. The road ahead, the Kernan Loop, has no given number but leads inextricably to the A3 so may well be a spur of that road.
Links
Roads.org.uk
Mótarbhealaí
Northern Ireland Road Site
Pathetic Motorways