Talk:M50 motorway (Ireland)

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Curious that the Dublin orbital motorway (M50) has a number twice that of the London orbital motorway (M25)...or should I say, "doublin'" it??? Hey, you never know, someone at the Irish road ministry may have a sense of humour or perhaps they just think about things without reference to the UK!

Not attempting to trample on the humour, but the choice of M50 makes perfect logical sense. The M50 is a National Primary Route (therefore actually legislated for as an "N" route). All N numbers up to 33 are taken already, and those of N51 or above are National Secondary Routes.

N/M50 is the only memorable number available apart from perhaps N/M40. N/M34 would have been the allocation if sequential numbering was continued.

The only slight flaw in this explanation is that N50, although unused, may have originally been included in the secondary route number range.

zoney ♣ talk 22:50, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The numbering method chosen is completely trivial in the greater course of things. This discussion is about as interesting as train-spotting!

What is even more strange is that the motorway linking dublin and belfast ( irelands two main cities) is only called the M1 south of the border as the northerners have reserved the M1 title for the motorway linking Belfast and that metropolis Dungannon! maybe they just think without making reference to the outside world.

Bobtastic