The road is approximately 30 miles long, and runs in a roughly north-west direction from the M8. It meets the A8 at Newbridge - a traffic blackspot before the junction was grade separated. Its next junction is a motorway spur towards the Forth Road Bridge - however it is only half finished, dumping its traffic onto the badly overloaded A8000 road two miles short of the bridge. The spur is being extended to the A90 dual carriageway as it approaches the bridge so as to releave congestion. The proj ...
National Development Plan - Road network.
As of 2005 some progress has been made on the motorway network, though it is likely the network will not be complete until near the end of the decade. The M1 motorway from Dublin towards Belfast has been completed almost as far as the border with Northern Ireland as the Dundalk bypass was officially opened on 26th of September 2005 (it did open for a few hours the previous day on order of the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, to assist in traffic flow as supporters of Tyrone were ...
