M2 motorway (Great Britain)

M2
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The motorway crossing the River Medway next to the High Speed 1 railway line.
Route information
Maintained by National Highways
Existed	1963–present
History	J2–J5 was opened in 1963. J1–J2 and J5–J7 were opened in 1965.
Major junctions
West end	Strood
East end	Faversham
Location
Country	United Kingdom
Counties	Kent
Road network
Roads in the United Kingdom Motorways A and B road zones
← M1 → M3

The M2 is a 26-mile-long (42 km) long motorway in Kent, England, and was built to bypass a section of the A2 road in Kent, which goes through the Medway Towns, Sittingbourne, and Faversham. It provides an alternative route to the Port of Dover, which supplements the M20 motorway located further to the south. The terminal junctions of the M2 intersect with the A2, which come together to form a 62-mile-long (100 km) long trunk road from London to Dover.^[1]