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| Apologies follow motorway delays | Apologies follow motorway delays |
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| Roads Service and the contractor which is carrying out resurfacing work on the M2 have after apologised after long delays on Sunday. | Roads Service and the contractor which is carrying out resurfacing work on the M2 have after apologised after long delays on Sunday. |
| Some motorists were held up for hours and others are understood to have missed flights because of the delays. | Some motorists were held up for hours and others are understood to have missed flights because of the delays. |
| "This was a planned closure to complete the final surfacing of lanes two and three of the motorway," said a DRD statement. | "This was a planned closure to complete the final surfacing of lanes two and three of the motorway," said a DRD statement. |
| "The work was completed well within the allocated time and reopened at 1015." | "The work was completed well within the allocated time and reopened at 1015." |
| One of the motorists caught up in the delays was Malachi O'Doherty. | |
| He said: "As we came down the motorway we saw signs up saying the Sandyknowes roundabout was closed so we understood that this meant as long as we weren't getting off at Sandyknowes then there was no difficulty, and we weren't." | |
| "Then we just drove into enormous traffic jams and we were stuck frozen in it for hours." | "Then we just drove into enormous traffic jams and we were stuck frozen in it for hours." |
| There are no further daytime closures planned for this section of the road. | There are no further daytime closures planned for this section of the road. |