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After meeting junction 1 – the site of the Junction One retail outlet – it continues west across Ferguson's Water, the Belfast-Derry railway line and Mill Burn as it bypasses the suburbs of Antrim to the north. Between junctions 2 and 3 it passes between Randalstown and the Randalstown forest, crosses the River Main, and
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The Junction, formerly Junction One (named after junction 1 of the nearby M22 Motorway), is a retail park in the area with restaurants and a hotel. [38] Supermarkets serving the town include an Asda store, Lidl outlet, Tesco Extra, and Iceland store. [citation needed] Castle Mall, formerly known as the Castle Centre, is located on High Street ...
Beyond its junction with the M2 and M22, the A26 continues as single carriageway into Antrim, passing The Junction, the first outlet centre opened in Northern Ireland and runs along the edge of Antrim town centre and onwards to a roundabout junction with the A57 route close to Belfast International Airport. Originally the A26 route continued ...
In 1956 proposals for several motorways, including the M2, were announced with the M2 running directly to Ballymena. [3] Part of this alignment became the A8(M) when in 1964 further plans changed the route of the M2 via Antrim to Coleraine, [3] away from its original direct alignment over difficult terrain, [4] which is how the plans for construction were then progressed.
The A26 between M22 Junction 1 and Junction 10 of the M2 was progressively upgraded to a dual carriageway and so it is now unlikely that the M2 will ever be completed. The section between Junctions 1A and 2 is ten lanes (five lanes and two full-width shoulders each way) and, when it was opened, was the widest motorway in the United Kingdom.
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The A6 road in Northern Ireland runs for 71.4 miles (114.9 km) from Belfast to Derry, via County Antrim and County Londonderry.While stretches of the road before Randalstown have now been superseded by a motorway (the M2 and M22), the A6 remains one of the most important arterial routes in Northern Ireland, connecting its two largest cities and urban areas.