European route E01
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The European route E01 (or nowadays simply E1) is a series of roads in Europe, part of the United Nations International E-road network, running from Larne, Northern Ireland to Seville, Spain. There is a sea crossing between Rosslare Harbour, in Ireland, and La Coruña – but no ferry service. The road also passes through Portugal – past the city of Porto, through the capital, Lisbon, and then south to the Algarve, passing Faro before reaching the Spanish border west of Huelva.
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[edit] Northern Ireland
As with all E-roads in the United Kingdom, the E1 is not signed in Northern Ireland. It begins in Larne, County Antrim as the A8 road. A short section of the A8 at Newtownabbey is under motorway regulations and is signed as the A8(M) motorway. This motorway joins the much longer M2 motorway to Belfast. At Belfast, the road becomes the A12 Westlink, a dual carriageway which joins the M2 with the M1 motorway. The A1 road leaves the motorway near Lisburn and continues south as a mixture of dual carriageway and regular highway until a final stretch of dual carriageway begins after Newry. This takes the road over the border to the Republic of Ireland.
[edit] Republic of Ireland
The dual carriageway continues in Ireland as the N1, which from Ballymascanlon onwards is under motorway regulations and signed as the M1 motorway. As in Northern Ireland, E-roads are not usually signed in the Republic of Ireland and, apart from two short sections, the E1 is no exception. The road follows the M1 south to Dublin, where, in the northern suburbs, it meets Dublin's ring road, the M50 motorway. It follows the M50 through the Dublin suburbia until it meets the short M11 motorway near Shankill. The M11 continues as a dual carriageway, the N11 road, south of Bray, as the Dual Carriageway bypasses Kilpedder village "E-01" has been placed on one Route Confirmation Sign in each direction. Apart from a short strech of regular highway between Rathnew and Arklow, the road is now dual carriageway as far as south of Gorey. The section bypassing Gorey, opened in 2007, was the first section in Ireland to carry any "E-01" signage, although the route number only appears on route confirmation signs - and on no other directional signage - on the bypass and is in rather small type. Following this, the remainder of the route in Ireland is single carriageway and passes through several towns and villages. The N11 continues to Wexford, where at a junction outside the town it meets the N25 road from Cork. The route follows the N25 to its final destination in Ireland of Rosslare Europort.
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[edit] Portugal
In Portugal, the route is composed of the following sections, always as a motorway (called auto-estrada in Portuguese):
- A3: Valença (border) - Braga - Porto
- A1: Porto - Coimbra - Lisbon
- A2: Lisbon - Albufeira
- A22: Albufeira - Castro Marim (border)
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