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(1) This Order may be cited as the M2 Improvements (Sandyknowes to Greencastle) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 11th July 2005.
(2) In this Order “the map” means the drawing numbered S100297/2/SK/006B marked “M2 Improvements (Sandyknowes to Greencastle) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005” copies of which have been deposited at the Department’s Roads Service offices, Headquarters, Room 2-01, Clarence Court, 10-18 Adelaide Street, Belfast BT2 8GB and Eastern Division, Hydebank, 4 Hospital Road, Belfast BT8 8JL.
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The roads described in Part I of the Schedule and the bridge described in Part II of the Schedule shall become special roads.
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The roads described in Part I of the Schedule and the bridge described in Part II of the Schedule shall become trunk roads and be part of the Belfast-Antrim-Coleraine-Londonderry Trunk Road T7.
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The roads described in Part I of the Schedule and the bridge described in Part II of the Schedule shall be used only by traffic of Classes I and II as set out in Schedule I to the Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1993.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Regional Development on 11th May 2005.
R. Sherman
A senior officer of the
Department for Regional Development

SCHEDULE
PART I
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4300 metres of a section of carriageway adjacent to the Belfast bound carriageway, from a point 570 metres south-east of the centre point of the bridge which carries the M2 Motorway over Sandyknowes Junction (No. 4), to a point on the M2 Motorway 4870 metres south-east of that bridge, more particularly delineated, coloured pink and marked C1 on the map.
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40 metres of a section of carriageway adjacent to the country bound carriageway, from a point 15 metres south-east of the centre point of Hightown Bridge on the M2 Motorway to a point 25 metres north-west of the centre point, more particularly delineated, coloured pink and marked C2 on the map.
3 
55 metres of a section of carriageway adjacent to the country bound carriageway, from a point 30 metres south-east of the centre point of Collin Bridge on the M2 Motorway to a point 25 metres north-west of the centre point, more particularly delineated, coloured pink and marked C3 on the map.
4 
55 metres of a section of carriageway adjacent to the country bound carriageway, from a point 25 metres south-east of the centre point of Longlands Bridge on the M2 Motorway to a point 30 metres north-west of the centre point, more particularly delineated, coloured pink and marked C4 on the map.
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800 metres of a section of carriageway adjacent to the country bound carriageway, from the centre point of Greencastle Bridge C on the M2 Motorway to a point on the M2 Motorway 800 metres north-west of that bridge, more particularly delineated, coloured pink and marked C5 on the map.
6 
100 metres of a section of carriageway adjacent to the Belfast bound carriageway, from a point 140 metres north-west of the centre point of Shore Road Bridge South on the M2 Motorway to a point 90 metres north-west of that point and from a point 140 metres south-east of the centre point of Shore Road Bridge South to a point 90 metres south-east of that point, more particularly delineated, coloured pink and marked C6 on the map.
PART II
20 metres of new bridge extending in a north-westerly direction for 20 metres from the centre point of the existing Greencastle Bridge C, more particularly delineated, coloured blue and marked B1 on the map.
