Show the urban road systems running thru your towns!

I've seen some good'uns such as Bangkok with its eleveated roads and Hong Kong where they run thru builings!
Anyone got any pics?

Also Madrid - some massive construction going on there at the moment, infact Spain is motorway mad!

the Westway

Starts at Marylebone, Central London.

http://mc.multimap.com/cs/blon//X21/Y72/X2100Y726S10W700H400.gif http://mc.multimap.com/cs/blon//X21/Y72/X2104Y726S10W700H400.gif

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When I was in England 2 years ago, I took a bus from Oxford to London (one of those 6 pound bus rides) and I distinctly remember the bus going on some highway then transferring to another highway in London's suburbs. Instead of the normal North American 'spaghetti junction', this was actually an elevated traffic circle (I believe it was sandwiched between the two highways). It was nighttime so I didn't get that great a look.

Any idea where that may be, and have any pics?

When I was in England 2 years ago, I took a bus from Oxford to London (one of those 6 pound bus rides) and I distinctly remember the bus going on some highway then transferring to another highway in London's suburbs. Instead of the normal North American 'spaghetti junction', this was actually an elevated traffic circle (I believe it was sandwiched between the two highways). It was nighttime so I didn't get that great a look.

Any idea where that may be, and have any pics?

There are plenty like that in London, but I'm guessing your bus took you on the A40 then M40 to Oxford? The traffic circle you speak of may have been Hanger Lane?

Many other big British cities also have the whole 'spaghetti' thing going on too, especially in Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham (Birmingham has the famous Spaghetti Junction).

Montreal's Décarie expressway:
http://www.mtq.gouv.qc.ca/images/regions/montreal/decarie/decarie2002_1.gif http://www.urbanphoto.net/photoblog/2005/december/66.jpg

http://www.quebec-ukraine.com/i/pic/2004_02_29_b.jpg

There are plenty like that in London, but I'm guessing your bus took you on the A40 then M40 to Oxford? The traffic circle you speak of may have been Hanger Lane?

Many other big British cities also have the whole 'spaghetti' thing going on too, especially in Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham (Birmingham has the famous Spaghetti Junction).

Oooo yes I googled it and it was where the A40 meets the A320 I believe, right near Hyde Park... the traffic circle was elevated (squashed between two elevated highways) and I thought that was just really awesome... And space saving too!

Not my pics, but this is I-91 which goes north-south through Downtown Hartford

http://www.northeastroads.com/connecticut050/i-091_nb_exit_029a_02.jpg

http://www.northeastroads.com/connecticut050/i-091_nb_exit_032a_01.jpg

http://www.northeastroads.com/connecticut050/i-091_nb_exit_032b_01.jpg

A few of Chicago...

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f385/Candrson/eisenhower.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f385/Candrson/eisenhower1.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f385/Candrson/eisenhower2.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f385/Candrson/eisenhower3.jpg

The new Dan Ryan Expressway they're in the middle of rebuilding:
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f385/Candrson/eisenhower4.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f385/Candrson/eisenhower5.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f385/Candrson/eisenhower6.jpg

(not expressway, but cool)
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f385/Candrson/eisenhower7.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f385/Candrson/eisenhower8.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f385/Candrson/eisenhower1.jpgHuh, are you kidding me? That's really cool!


http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f385/Candrson/eisenhower4.jpgVery nice! R u sure it's not a drawing? :)

^ It is a rendering, i forgot to mark that. They're right in the middle of the reconstruction right now - but that's the final project that will be finished in a year or two.

Cool infrastructure facilities you have there.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

M79/Route 43
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/1997/8mh2.jpg

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/9518/1zd3.jpg

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/2549/3yh5.jpg

http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/9162/cl19jd.jpg

http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/8045/cl21fe.jpg

http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/1856/cl36tb.jpg

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/113/cl40tm.jpg

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/7308/cl58rk.jpg

M1
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/4282/17lm2.jpg

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/4640/210as.jpg

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/8910/255lp.jpg

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/5660/307kf.jpg

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/4997/337zx.jpg

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/5304/155rp.jpg

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/4949/ad12020058wr.jpg

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/2633/img04461dk.jpg

Model of an interchange under construction on the M1 in Melbourne.
http://img314.imageshack.us/img314/9311/monash6ea2og.png

http://img314.imageshack.us/img314/7094/monash26rm2ye.png

http://img424.imageshack.us/img424/1621/wg13fp.jpg

http://img424.imageshack.us/img424/7541/wg27dx.jpg

http://img424.imageshack.us/img424/3677/wg38mt.jpg

http://img424.imageshack.us/img424/8195/wg42oa.jpg

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/7514/wg51om.jpg

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/4273/7mv1.jpg

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/6595/4ri9.jpg

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/1385/2io1.jpg

http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/4029/viaduct14ei.jpg

http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/3953/viaduct27gl.jpg

http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/9533/viaduct33nj.jpg

Route 83
http://members.optusnet.com.au/mainroadsvic/a/a.JPG

http://members.optusnet.com.au/mainroadsvic/a/c.JPG

http://members.optusnet.com.au/mainroadsvic/a/d.JPG

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/1248/5qf4.jpg

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8868/6wr3.jpg


M80
http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/1412/m80399qk.jpg

http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/1849/m80edgars4zw.jpg

http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/6660/m80fitzgerald2ks.jpg

http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/4918/m80m17tx.jpg

http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/5559/m80m1027tf.jpg

http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/8462/m80m8012fd.jpg

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/8679/1002hi.jpg

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/7199/1015yk.jpg

http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/5665/1023ll.jpg

http://members.optusnet.com.au/mainroadsvic/c/(11).JPG

http://members.optusnet.com.au/mainroadsvic/c/(10).JPG

http://members.optusnet.com.au/mainroadsvic/c/(9).JPG

http://members.optusnet.com.au/mainroadsvic/c/(8).JPG

http://members.optusnet.com.au/mainroadsvic/c/(5).JPG

http://members.optusnet.com.au/mainroadsvic/c/(6).JPG

http://members.optusnet.com.au/mainroadsvic/c/(7).JPG



Route 11
http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/112/morningtonpeninfwy1kb.jpg


Route 43
http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/9151/43407ln.jpg

http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/5407/43bolte6xj.jpg

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/5568/t17ek.jpg


M1
http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/1861/m1avalon1nh.jpg

http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/4385/m1c7012ae.jpg

http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/695/m1corio3lg.jpg

http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/9977/m1laverton026oi.jpg

http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/4679/m1m80044pg.jpg

http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/3540/princeshwy2fy.jpg

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/4795/cb18xv.jpg

M31
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/9301/h1em2.jpg

http://img423.imageshack.us/img423/7715/craigieburn37ii.jpg

http://img423.imageshack.us/img423/1066/craigieburn60vc.jpg

http://img423.imageshack.us/img423/3518/craigieburn7rn.jpg

http://img423.imageshack.us/img423/7991/craigieburn44th.jpg

M79
http://members.optusnet.com.au/mainroadsvic/c/(2).JPG

http://members.optusnet.com.au/mainroadsvic/c/(3).JPG

http://members.optusnet.com.au/mainroadsvic/c/(4).JPG

http://members.optusnet.com.au/mainroadsvic/c/(1).JPG

Some interchanges
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j247/angryboozehound/interch_20072006_205356.jpg


http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j247/angryboozehound/interch_20072006_205740.jpg

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j247/angryboozehound/interch_20072006_205924.jpg

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j247/angryboozehound/interch_20072006_205949.jpg

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j247/angryboozehound/interch_21072006_205330.jpg

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j247/angryboozehound/interch_21072006_205750.jpg

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j247/angryboozehound/interch_21072006_210014.jpg

Stockholm's newest expressway - Södra Länken (the Southern Link) - runs mainly through tunnels, and opened October 2004. It's a part of the as of yet incomplete Stockholm Ring Road.
http://www.tunnelloppet.se/images/sl_karta_pre.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Sodra_lanken_vasterut.jpg/800px-Sodra_lanken_vasterut.jpg

http://www.vv.se/Filer/Pressbilder/sodralanken/5913-2686.jpg

http://www.vv.se/filer/5650/5913-2357.jpg

http://www.vv.se/filer/5650/5913-2369.jpg

Rush hour:

http://www.vv.se/filer/5650/5920-2850.jpg


Essingeleden (the Essinge Link) is an island hopping expressway west of the downtown area. It was the first part of the proposed ring road, and opened in the 1960's

http://www.stacken.kth.se/~foo/album/Stockholm/By%20night/essingeleden.jpg

http://www.aftonbladet.se/bil/0506/26/NYHETER-26s21-Essingen-539_368.jpg

http://www.transport.se/HOME/trp2/tidn/home.nsf/files/s01_essingeleden.jpg/$FILE/s01_essingeleden.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Essingeleden_southbound_at_Nyboda.jpg/800px-Essingeleden_southbound_at_Nyboda.jpg

Norra Länken (the Northern Link) is a part of the ring road, that is to be extended eastwards beginning this year.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Norra_L%C3%A4nken_Stockholm_%C3%B6sterut_20060509.jpg/800px-Norra_L%C3%A4nken_Stockholm_%C3%B6sterut_20060509.jpg

http://www.vv.se/filer/7853/Stockholm-ring_NL_stor.jpg

A render:

http://www.vv.se/filer/28066/bergtunnel_stor_f060403.jpg

the new stockholm tunnel looks amazing

Amazing yes... and also expensive!

Any idea of how much it'll cost and where the funding is comming from (municipal/federal/tolls etc)?

Big Dig, anyone? ^^

Yes, Södra Länken was ridiculously expensive, but nowhere near 'the Big Dig', appr. 1 billion USD vs 14.6 billion. We had the advantage of drilling thru bedrock.

I can't find any exact figures for Norra Länken but it seems to be pretty much the same. Funding is something like 30% municipal, 70% federal...

Helsinki:

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/3887/gehpk7.jpg (http://img181.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gehpk7.jpg)

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/3218/0501181653yh5.jpg (http://img181.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0501181653yh5.jpg)

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/183/0511061704ac6.jpg (http://img293.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0511061704ac6.jpg)

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/3439/lvaylaqp6.jpg (http://img154.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lvaylaqp6.jpg)

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/2582/keha1xi1.gif (http://img154.imageshack.us/my.php?image=keha1xi1.gif)

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/5120/keha2ek3.jpg (http://img217.imageshack.us/my.php?image=keha2ek3.jpg)

ABOUT MADRID

http://img460.imageshack.us/img460/4815/greatmadridsketchmapofmainhigh.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

"MADRID CALLE 30"

Budget: €3.9 billion
Start: September 2004
End: April 2007

Madrid's first/inner freeway round ring of its 4 ones is called M-30 and carries over 330.000 cars/day.
M-30 is 30km long and it was started to built in the late sixties.
Now a days M-30 is changing completely, is being rebuilt to improve those areas of Madrid near it, especially the west side, close to the Manzanares river, the total cost of the proyect is 3.900.000.000 euros and when finished most of the highway will be a tunnel and its capacity will be extended in 100.000 more cars/day.
The name of the project is "Madrid Calle 30" which means "Madrid 30th Street"

http://img467.imageshack.us/img467/7881/works1ea.png (http://imageshack.us)
http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/2787/m303jj.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

1 New "La paloma" interchange (done).
May 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/mayo2005/c3002.jpg
December 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/enero2006/LaPaloma.jpg
2 New "Costa Rica" interchange (done).
December 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/noviembre2005/2.%20Costa%20Rica2.jpg
3 New "Avenida de América" (A-2) interchange (done).
March 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/marzo2005/A2_MARZO.jpg
July 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/julio2005/PICT0159a.jpg
September 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/septiembre2005/3_AVDA_AMERICA.jpg
4 New "O'Donnell" (M-23) interchange (done).
May 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/mayo2005/c3008.jpg
September 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/septiembre2005/PICT0022.jpg
5 New "Avenida del Mediterraneo" (A-3) interchange (end: september 2006).
May 2005:
http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/1898/c30107ni.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
May 2006:
http://img467.imageshack.us/img467/9835/3967801dx.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/8287/imaxe030m19xl.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
7.1 New south by pass inner tunnel (end: march 2007).
April 2005:
http://img467.imageshack.us/img467/3606/c30112uy.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
July 2005:
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/4042/pict0029a4km.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
October 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/octubre2005/By-pass-Sur0080.jpg
December 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/diciembre2005/7.1-PICT0081.jpg
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/diciembre2005/7.1-PICT0043.jpg
January 2006:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/enero2006/BypassSur3.jpg
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/enero2006/BypassSur2.jpg
March 2006:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/marzo2006/bypassSurSur_1.jpg
May 2006:
http://img467.imageshack.us/img467/4909/este21ki.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
7.2 New south by pass outer tunnel (end: march 2007).
April 2006:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/mayo2006/Sur_1.jpg
8 New "South" interchange (A-4) (end: october 2006).
October 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/octubre2005/Embajadores0021.jpg
November 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/noviembre2005/8.%20Embajadores1.jpg
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/noviembre2005/8.%20Embajadores2.jpg
March 2006:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/marzo2006/embajadores_1.jpg
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/marzo2006/embajadores_2.jpg
April 2006:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/abril2006/embajadores_2.jpg
10.1 New tunnel from "Marques de Monistrol" to "Segovia's Bridge" and new underground "Puente del Rey" interchange (A-5) (end: april 2007).
Before:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/imagenes/proyectooeste/10.jpg
Project (new underground "Puente del Rey" interchange):
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/2281/pginasdecalle30proyectooesteco.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Project (new tunnel from "Marques de Monistrol" to "Segovia's Bridge):
http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/4883/monistrol1pm.png (http://imageshack.us)
Project under Segovia's Bridge:
http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/8735/calle30proyectooestecompletopg.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
October 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/octubre2005/Mques.Monistrol-Pte.jpg
December 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/diciembre2005/10.1-PICT0013.jpg
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/noviembre2005/10.1%20Monistro_Pte.Segovia1.jpg
January 2006:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/enero2006/Monistrol.jpg
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/enero2006/Monistrol2.jpg
Abril 2006:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/abril2006/monistrol_segovia_1.jpg
10.2 New tunnel from "Segovia's Bridge" to "San Isidro's Bridge" (end: april 2007).
Before:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/imagenes/proyectooeste/14.jpg
July 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/julio2005/1a.jpg
October 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/octubre2005/Pte.Segovia-Pte.S2.jpg
November 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/noviembre2005/10.2%20Pte.Segovia_Pte.S.Isidro2.jpg
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/diciembre2005/10.2-PICT0029.jpg
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/diciembre2005/10.2-PICT0064.jpg
January 2006:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/enero2006/PteSIsidro.jpg
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/enero2006/PteSIsidro3.jpg
11.1 New tunnel from "San Isidro's Bridge" to "Prague's Bridge" (End: April 2007).
Before:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/imagenes/proyectooeste/18.jpg
Project:
http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/5783/ptesanisidropraga20ta.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
July 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/julio2005/8a.jpg
September 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/septiembre2005/10_ISIDRO_PRAGA.jpg
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/septiembre2005/10_ISIDRO_PRAGA_2.jpg
October 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/octubre2005/Pte.S.IsidroPteP.jpg
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/octubre2005/Pte.S.IsidroPteP2.jpg
December 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/diciembre2005/11.1-PICT0036.jpg
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/diciembre2005/11.1-PICT0034.jpg
March 2006:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/marzo2006/isidroPraga_2.jpg
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/marzo2006/isidroPraga_3.jpg
May 2006:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/mayo2006/isidro_praga_2.jpg
11.2 New tunnel from "Prague's Bridge" to "South interchange (end: april 2007).
Before:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/imagenes/proyectooeste/22.jpg
Project:
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7152/proyectopragasur7jy.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
October 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/octubre2005/Pte.Praga%20NudoSur.jpg
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/octubre2005/Pte.Praga%20NudoSur2.jpg
November 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/noviembre2005/11.2%20Pte.Praga_Nudo%20Sur1.jpg
December 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/diciembre2005/11.2-PICT0047.jpg
April 2006:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/abril2006/praga_sur_1.jpg
May 2006:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/mayo2006/praga_sur_2.jpg
12 New lanes (end: september 2006).
January 2006:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/enero2006/ZonaNoroeste.jpg
February 2006:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/febrero2006/12.%20ILUSTRACION/PICT0075.jpg
March 2006:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/marzo2006/ilustracion_2.jpg
May 2006:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/mayo2006/ilustracion_2.jpg
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/mayo2006/ilustracion_1.jpg
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/mayo2006/ilustracion_2.jpg
14 New "Colmenar" interchange (M-607) (done).
July 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/julio2005/PICT0042a.jpg
September 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/septiembre2005/14_CTRA_COLMENAR_M607.jpg
November 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/noviembre2005/14.%20Colmenar1.jpg
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/noviembre2005/14.%20Colmenar2.jpg
December 2005:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/diciembre2005/14.-PICT0041.jpg
February 2006:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/febrero2006/14.%20COLMENAR/PICT0017.jpg
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/febrero2006/14.%20COLMENAR/PICT0028.jpg
March 2006:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/marzo2006/colmenar_3.jpg
Mayy 2006:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/mayo2006/colmenar_1.jpg
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/galeria/mayo2006/colmenar_2.jpg

GREAT VIDEOS OF THE FREEWAY:
http://www.munimadrid.es/Principal/EnlacesHome/Calle30/Pres1/calle30.htm

The Stockholm ones look great! The Melbourne ones seem to be in the middle of nowhere. Are those just connecting interstate?

http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/8287/imaxe030m19xl.jpg

widest motorway in europe?

http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/8287/imaxe030m19xl.jpg

widest motorway in europe?

looks like 395 in northern virginia

Toronto's Gardiner Expressway
http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/4871/img0413ml0.jpg

Those Madrid pictures are :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: I'm impressed!

I also liked the tunnels in Stockholm and the Australian freeways.

http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/8287/imaxe030m19xl.jpg

widest motorway in europe?


I think yes. I've never seen anything of similar in Europe. :)

In Paris suburbs they are similar highways

http://mapage.noos.fr/marla13/paris_transport/carte5.jpg

A6
( 12 lanes )
http://site.sara.free.fr/photos/A6-005-Wissous-CCZ.jpg

A 4
http://site.sara.free.fr/photos/A4-004-Ech_A86-St-Maurice-JRL.jpg

Boulevard Peripherique

http://jrlegallais.free.fr/photos/routes/bp/BP-001-Ech_A6b-Porte_d'Italie-JRL.jpg

In Paris suburbs they are similar highways

I think there are no similar highways, could you please show us any 17 lanes highway in Paris????

NOTE: Only one of these images is actually mine.

Interstate 15 - runs north-to-south to the west of downtown and straight south through many of the suburbs. These are going northbound.
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e141/bobrulz600/I-151.jpg

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e141/bobrulz600/I-152.jpg

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e141/bobrulz600/I-153.jpg

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e141/bobrulz600/I-154.jpg

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e141/bobrulz600/I-155.jpg

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e141/bobrulz600/I-156.jpg

Interstate 80 - runs west-to-east from the desert, past the airport, briefly merges with I-15 west of downtown, and heads east through the residential eastern neighborhoods into the Wasatch Mountains. These are going westbound. A badly-needed reconstruction for the eastern section is set to begin in 2008, I believe. Over the past year, chunks of concrete have fallen out of 2 bridges, and the road is in horrible condition.
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e141/bobrulz600/I-801.jpg

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e141/bobrulz600/I-80from1700East.jpg

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e141/bobrulz600/I-802.jpg

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e141/bobrulz600/I-803.jpg

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e141/bobrulz600/I-804.jpg

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e141/bobrulz600/I-805.jpg

And as we're leaving the city and entering the desert...
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e141/bobrulz600/I-806.jpg

Interstate 215 - forms a 3/4 loop through the western neighborhoods into the western surburbs, turning east through the central suburbs, and paralleling the mountains in the eastern suburbs. This is going counter-clockwise.

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e141/bobrulz600/I-2151.jpg

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e141/bobrulz600/I-2152.jpg

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e141/bobrulz600/I-2153.jpg

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e141/bobrulz600/I-2154.jpg

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e141/bobrulz600/I-2155.jpg

And as it merges back into I-80:
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e141/bobrulz600/I-2156.jpg

There's also State Route 201, which lies along the border between Salt Lake City and West Valley City on the west side of the city. Very busy, very congested, just got a widening. Can't find any good pictures, though.

Some Santiago Urban Highways

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/5207/auto280lx.jpg

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/1957/auto138ej.jpg

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/2965/auto186db.jpg

http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/7066/imagen0769kw.jpg

http://www.vne.cl/new/gallery/i4.jpg

http://www.autopistacentral.cl/images/obras/aereas/grandes_nov05/sta_maria_balmaceda02.jpg

http://www.plataformaurbana.cl/copp/albums/userpics/10006/rotonda_quilin.jpg

http://www.vespuciosur.cl/descargas/webbys/torreg-copia.jpg

To the International Airport

http://www.dgop.cl/galeria/images/obras%20mop/FOTOS%20MOP%202005/13%20Region/vespucio%20norte%202.jpg

Those Santiago and Madrid expressways look absolutely amazing! :eek:

On the previous page I posted the 'Westway'...

http://static.flickr.com/56/161952155_92bdc3818a_b.jpg


here's some more:

North Circular (About halfway between the city-centre and city edge. Along with the South Circular, it creates London's "inner orbital")

http://static.flickr.com/52/156705897_4226a2ca11_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/4/5005210_73c403473c_o.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/54/110425329_34852c87bd_b.jpg


the A2... which runs from South-East London to East London

http://static.flickr.com/72/169460471_15267b39d2_o.jpg


M4 Elevated Section... to get in & out of london from the West

http://static.flickr.com/98/227169181_bc0090342f_o.jpg


... I may post more later.

From www.aucklandmotorways.co.nz

http://www.aucklandmotorways.co.nz/cmjnorthimages2.JPG
http://www.aucklandmotorways.co.nz/cmjnorthimages23.JPG http://www.aucklandmotorways.co.nz/cmjnorthimages15.JPG http://www.aucklandmotorways.co.nz/cmjnorthimages14.JPG http://www.aucklandmotorways.co.nz/cmjnorthimages5.JPG
http://www.aucklandmotorways.co.nz/cmjsouthimages22.JPG http://www.aucklandmotorways.co.nz/northernimages13.jpg http://www.aucklandmotorways.co.nz/cmjsouthimages19.JPG
http://www.aucklandmotorways.co.nz/northernimages20.JPG http://www.aucklandmotorways.co.nz/southernimages1.jpg
http://www.aucklandmotorways.co.nz/southernimages7.JPG
http://www.aucklandmotorways.co.nz/southernimages9.JPG
http://www.aucklandmotorways.co.nz/swimages14.JPG

HK highway

This one is Gloucester Rd.

http://www.ambuehler.ch/trip_reports/2001_hongkong/04-29/roadsign.jpg

A few more from Auckland, NZ

http://www.aucklandmotorways.co.nz/victoriaviaductstmarysbay.jpg
http://www.aucklandmotorways.co.nz/cmjnorthimages23.JPG
http://www.aucklandmotorways.co.nz/cmjnorthimages10.JPG
http://www.aucklandmotorways.co.nz/cmjnorthimages11.JPG

http://pro.corbis.com/images/AAMK001293.jpg?size=67&uid={aa232a2b-51de-42f7-86a0-72a5700c6e53}

A highway and tollbooth leads to the city of Kuala Lumpur.
Image: © Louie Psihoyos/CORBIS

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/502/9skyline__4_.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/baqthier/whatpj.jpg

http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/5039/54563nr.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d163/picaddict_1975/Hartamas%20Mont%20kiara/DSC00990.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d163/picaddict_1975/Hartamas%20Mont%20kiara/DSC00994.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d163/picaddict_1975/Hartamas%20Mont%20kiara/DSC00986.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d163/picaddict_1975/Hartamas%20Mont%20kiara/DSC00987.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d163/picaddict_1975/Hartamas%20Mont%20kiara/DSC00991.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d163/picaddict_1975/Hartamas%20Mont%20kiara/DSC00985.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v608/nazrey/16-1.jpg

KL

http://img273.imageshack.us/img273/6221/14599gd.jpg

KL

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v608/nazrey/Kuala%20Lumpur/2458.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v608/nazrey/Kuala%20Lumpur/655.jpg

Motorway ramps at KL-Seremban

http://www.smarttunnel.com.my/images/project/progress/2006-06/bg/slide0156_image045.jpg

http://www.smarttunnel.com.my/images/project/progress/2006-08/bg/slide0063_image038.jpg

Klang Valley Expressway

http://www.wcte.com.my/WCTE/upload/picture/gce06_b.jpg

http://www.wcte.com.my/WCTE/upload/picture/gce03_b.jpg

This is I-126 in Columbia heading into downtown:

http://webzoom.freewebs.com/waccamatt/downtown%20close%20up%20from%20greystone.jpg

I can't find any pics (gotta take some soon), but the Yan'An Expressway in Shanghai is argubly the one that offers the coolest views of any urban expressway on the planet.

Inre Ringvagen is the most famous urban expressway in Malmo, however I don't have any pics of that one either.

The next photo's are from Zwolle, The Netherlands (NL).
This 113.000 inhabitants, middle-sized city is the entrance to the north of the country.
There is only 1 motorway,the A28, which is only 2x2 lanes wide, but handles over 120.000 vehicles a day. Every day, over 100.000 persons commute into the city.

1. The bridge over the river "IJssel". This is just after the interchange with the A50/N50 motorway/National Road. Note the first real "skyscraper" of Zwolle (100m) in the background.
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/7739/ringzwolle2060bl4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

2. Exit Zwolle-Zuid, the first exit from the south.
http://www.roadpics.net/A28/A28N/29.jpg

3. Exit Zwolle-Centrum, the exit to downtown. This 4lane motorway still handles over 110.000 vehicles a day.
http://www.roadpics.net/A28/A28N/30.jpg

4. Now from the North: Exit Zwolle-Noord. (Zwolle-North). The N35 is one of the most congested road in Zwolle. It will be widened from 2x2 to 2x3 lanes, and the speed limit will raise from 50 to 70 by 2010.
That red sign says the extra lane is not opened for traffic. Now, the limit is 100km/h, when the lane is opened the limit is 80km/h, because that lane is not wide enough to support higher speeds.
http://www.roadpics.net/A28/A28Z/29.jpg

5. Exit Zwolle-Centrum (Downtown). From the ONLY 3 exits in Zwolle, this is the less congested one. The sign says Utrecht 89km. For Dutch standards, that's quite far. (only 50 miles).
http://www.roadpics.net/A28/A28Z/30.jpg

6. Exit Zwolle-Zuid (South). This is the last exit in Zwolle. The entire A28 near Zwolle is heavily congested at most times, because its way not wide enough.
http://www.roadpics.net/A28/A28Z/31.jpg

MADRID TRAFFIC LIVE (some 24 hours traffic cameras, picture update every 2 minutes):
http://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-104.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-105.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-106.jpg
http://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-107.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-109.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-111.jpg
http://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-112.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-113.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-147.jpg
http://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-148.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-149.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-150.jpg
http://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-151.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-243.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-242.jpg
http://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-182.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-132.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-127.jpg
http://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-245.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-247.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-268.jpg
http://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-137.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-139.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-140.jpg
http://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-141.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-142.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-283.jpg
http://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-290.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-291.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-91.jpg
http://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-41.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-35.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-46.jpg
http://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-52.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-57.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-39.jpg
http://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-16.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-38.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-244.jpg
http://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-301.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-303.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-188.jpg
http://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-168.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-170.jpghttp://www.dgt.es/camaras/camara-2700001-321.jpg
http://www.traficomadrid.munimadrid.es/Camaras/rutinasContenidoBocadillo.asp?camara=00041&mapa=PRINCIPAL
http://www.traficomadrid.munimadrid.es/Camaras/images/real/Camara00041.jpg
http://www.traficomadrid.munimadrid.es/Camaras/rutinasContenidoBocadillo.asp?camara=00306&mapa=PRINCIPAL
http://www.traficomadrid.munimadrid.es/Camaras/images/real/Camara00306.jpg
http://www.traficomadrid.munimadrid.es/Camaras/rutinasContenidoBocadillo.asp?camara=00047&mapa=PRINCIPAL
http://www.traficomadrid.munimadrid.es/Camaras/images/real/Camara00047.jpg
http://www.traficomadrid.munimadrid.es/Camaras/rutinasContenidoBocadillo.asp?camara=00301&mapa=PRINCIPAL
http://www.traficomadrid.munimadrid.es/Camaras/images/real/Camara00301.jpg
http://www.traficomadrid.munimadrid.es/Camaras/rutinasContenidoBocadillo.asp?camara=00302&mapa=PRINCIPAL
http://www.traficomadrid.munimadrid.es/Camaras/images/real/Camara00302.jpg
http://www.traficomadrid.munimadrid.es/Camaras/rutinasContenidoBocadillo.asp?camara=00316&mapa=PRINCIPAL
http://www.traficomadrid.munimadrid.es/Camaras/images/real/Camara00316.jpg
http://www.traficomadrid.munimadrid.es/Camaras/rutinasContenidoBocadillo.asp?camara=00054&mapa=PRINCIPAL
http://www.traficomadrid.munimadrid.es/Camaras/images/real/Camara00054.jpg

Refresh to update the images!

Are there any stats on Madrilan motorways? I heard the M30 is the second busiest motorway from Europe, only second to the Moscow Ringroad.

I could not find any updated map of traffic, the last official one, is dated in 2004 and says that M-30 carried 311.156 cars/day between Puente Ramon y Cajal and Puente de America (15 lanes now a days between these points), km 4 (this was the part with more cars/day of M-30 in 2004).

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/2412/imaxe037amr5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

This camera is located in the A-2 (Puente de America), just over this part of the M-30, sometimes shows A-2 and other times shows M-30:
http://www.traficomadrid.munimadrid.es/Camaras/rutinasContenidoBocadillo.asp?camara=00316&mapa=PRINCIPAL
http://www.traficomadrid.munimadrid.es/Camaras/images/real/Camara00316.jpg
Refresh to update the image!

I found something about the "IMD,intensidad media diaria" (dont know how to call this in english), this means the number of cars a day (24hours) which go through the most crowded point in a freeway or road. So I found that the IMD in 2006 for the M-30 never has been under 400.000 cars/day for the East Side, 200.000 for the West Side and 150.000 for the North Side in a work day.

400.000 vehicles/day? That is extremely much, even more than the busiest stretch of road in LA's I-405 (390.000). :runaway:

I know it is extremely much, in that area M-30 has between 14 and 17 lanes, and I know traffic is completely stopped during rush hours and most part of the working days but 400.000 I think is pretty much, I mean I am sure sometimes has reached that number of cars/day but "never under"... ¿?
I will be searching for this info very seriously, I'll ask for official statistics in the city hall, I really would like to know about it, so I promise more info will be coming soon.

Buenos Aires - Argentina

Acceso Norte (Panamericana)
http://img494.imageshack.us/img494/3497/panamerica6gp7gp.jpg
http://img476.imageshack.us/img476/724/17cb.jpg
http://img433.imageshack.us/img433/2880/233wo.jpg
http://img333.imageshack.us/img333/274/70ct1.jpg
http://www.impregilo.it/IMPREGILOIST/Repository/immagini/progetti/GRANDI_OPERE_DETT/71/Acc_N_BuoensAir4.jpg
http://www.impregilo.it/IMPREGILOIST/Repository/immagini/progetti/GRANDI_OPERE_DETT/71/Acc_N_BuoensAir6.jpg
http://www.impregilo.it/IMPREGILOIST/Repository/immagini/progetti/GRANDI_OPERE_DETT/71/Acc_N_BuoensAir7.jpg
http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/9732/313la.png
http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/6440/340bg.png
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/650/462ey.png
http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/9902/402vf.png
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/1064/644he.png
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/8343/673je.png
http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/9894/702wy.png
http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/7018/746bu.jpg
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/6872/autopista26fw.jpg
http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/4563/autopista32la.jpg
http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/6660/10005878ae.jpg
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/7073/10005929ji.jpg
http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/2479/aepjlg050606011eo11nk0.jpg
http://www.aeropuertosarg.com.ar/Race/aep/aepabs2.jpg

Ramal Pilar
http://img333.imageshack.us/img333/7887/53xa.jpg
http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/8968/195at.png
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/9083/1001551ab4.jpg

Acceso Oeste
http://www.auoeste.com.ar/sitio/f_autopista_3.jpg
http://www.auoeste.com.ar/sitio/grafica/fotos/historia_01.jpg

Autopista Richieri
http://img494.imageshack.us/img494/8678/157tk.gif
http://img494.imageshack.us/img494/1094/165ks.gif
http://img333.imageshack.us/img333/2246/126wx.gif
http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/4062/382qc.png

Autopista General Paz
http://img476.imageshack.us/img476/2181/219im.jpg
http://img476.imageshack.us/img476/2523/2003vf.jpg
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/1808/1731pt.jpg
http://img494.imageshack.us/img494/5619/181vv.jpg
http://img333.imageshack.us/img333/1195/48kz.jpg
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/4494/autopistasbuesnosaires04s3vv.jpg
http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/8093/176jk.png
http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/8128/211nm.png
http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/6741/257kk.png
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/6107/329dk.png
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/2821/371nk.png
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/5314/autopista16gj0vk.jpg
http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/4511/nuez16uf.jpg
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/1363/10006018pp.jpg
http://www.aeropuertosarg.com.ar/fotosusuarios/10013/aepjlg19100502.jpg
http://www.aeropuertosarg.com.ar/fotosusuarios/10013/aepjlg08010603.jpg
http://www.aeropuertosarg.com.ar/fotosusuarios/10013/aepjlg19100501.jpg

General Paz - Perito Moreno intersection
http://www.ausol.com.ar//ArchivoFotografico/FotosGrandes/fotog15.jpg

Perito Moreno
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/8030/au25demayo37bp.jpg

Buenos Aires - La Plata
http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/1493/aubsaslaplata24ca.jpg

Autopista Illia
http://img41.exs.cx/img41/88/b0-Dibujo.jpg
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/1273/01ee5.jpg
http://www.aeropuertosarg.com.ar/Race/aep/aepdtk18060202.jpg

25 de Mayo - 9 de Julio intersection
http://www.clarin.com/diario/2006/07/18/fotos/t039dh02.jpg

25 de Mayo
http://www.lazosamericanos.com.ar/ImgArg/img0361.jpg
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/8162/au25demayo6bt.jpg

Lugones
http://www.aeropuertosarg.com.ar/fotosusuarios/10013/aepjlg19100505.jpg
http://www.aeropuertosarg.com.ar/fotosusuarios/10013/aepjlg07100501.jpg

Project
http://www.clarin.com/diario/2006/07/14/fotos/info42.jpg

Doble Post

I think there are no similar highways, could you please show us any 17 lanes highway in Paris????


Ok

It is not 17 lanes but 14 (Not a big diference )

A1 motorway 14 lanes
http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/8844/a1et7.jpg

A6 motorway 14 lanes
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/8084/a614anesqm2.jpg

A86 motorway 10 lanes ( Small but it is similar )
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/3978/a862jo8.jpg

Paris freeways system traffic
http://www.sytadin.tm.fr/tempsreel/general.gif

Green : traffic normal
Red : traffic jam
Grey : inalienable information

14 lanes - 3 exit lanes = thru 11 lanes.

But the widest part of road, without parallelroads is in Buenos Aires i think.

Great pictures!! I love Buenos Aires

Mexico City

Mexican expressways are not very special, but because of the traffic, some in Mexico City are double-decker freeways. This is the Periferico expressway. The film "En el hoyo" is about its construction.

http://img347.imageshack.us/img347/3548/peeri42mi.jpg

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/1466/peri29hd.jpg

http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/4898/peri18rl.jpg

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/9881/peri32jb.jpg

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/4669/peri51gz.jpg

http://www.setravi.df.gob.mx/galeria/fotos/vialidades%202%20piso%2002.jpg

http://img306.imageshack.us/img306/8273/peri7rv.jpg

http://img306.imageshack.us/img306/4559/peri65ey.jpg

http://img306.imageshack.us/img306/7479/peri79rb.jpg

http://img306.imageshack.us/img306/5387/peri84ls.jpg

http://img302.imageshack.us/img302/6333/peri96jx.jpg

http://img302.imageshack.us/img302/4408/peri105fy.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/jamesinclair/IMG_2540.jpg

Copenhagen - Bispeengbuen

Pic NOT by me
http://www.vejdirektoratet.dk/publikationer/VDrap282/images/rap282x93x1.jpg

Those broad expressways cutting through the cities are ugly! They should transform them into tunnels and place greenery onto them.

Those broad expressways cutting through the cities are ugly! They should transform them into tunnels and place greenery onto them.

Bad idea.

Because, in most countries, trucks with dangerous loads like chemicals, fuel, and other non-healthy products aren't allowed in every tunnel.

So when you tunnel most expressways, that traffic has to drive right trough the city, which is much more dangerous. (relatively, non-motorways have a much higher accident-rate).

Think of what would happen if a chemical-loaded truck get's an accident near a school!

I think that shouldn't be such a problem if the tunnels are cut&cover-style and therefore close under the surface (with more possibilities for ventilation).
There are plans to transform a long stretch of the expressway north of the Elbtunnel into a cut&cover-style tunnel in order to raise the living quality of the neighbourhoods directly affected by the expressway. And the Elbtunnel is one of the heaviest-used tunnels in Germany, with 150.000 vehicles per day, among them a lot of trucks transporting various goods.

I don't know how they qualify in Germany to tunnels, but with a certain distance, cut&cover tunnels are qualified as tunnels in The Netherlands, so trucks with dangerous goods are not allowed to use them, and have to take a ferry or bridge to cross a river or waterway. We have various tunnels like that here.

And besides that, it is extremely expensive to reconstruct or widen such a tunnel. So you have to build the right capacity for, say, the next 40 years.
They didn't did that near Amsterdam, with the Coentunnel. They have to construct a second tube, which costs more than a billlion euro's.

But in areas with very large ships (like Rotterdam, Antwerp or Hamburg), you just have to use tunnels, because you don't want a "viaduc de Millau" in flat landscape ;)

So next, the busiest motorway in The Netherlands: The A16 on the eastside of Rotterdam. With over 230.000 vehicles a day, the road is busier than any country near NL.

1. Some miles south of Rotterdam
http://www.roadpics.net/A16/A16N/17.jpg

2. Here starts the road with the most lanes: 18 in total
http://www.roadpics.net/A16/A16N/19.jpg

3. Near Rotterdam-Feijenoord. The lane on the right is a truck-lane.
http://www.roadpics.net/A16/A16N/21.jpg

4. The Van Brienenoordbridge; this is the busiest stretch.
http://www.roadpics.net/A16/A16N/22.jpg

5. Near Rotterdam-Centrum; 14 lanes across
http://www.roadpics.net/A16/A16N/23.jpg

6. End (or better: start) of the A16 which run from Rotterdam to the Belgium border near Breda.
http://www.roadpics.net/A16/A16N/25.jpg

President George Bush Turnpike in Dallas is the best!

I can't find any pics (gotta take some soon), but the Yan'An Expressway in Shanghai is argubly the one that offers the coolest views of any urban expressway on the planet.

Inre Ringvagen is the most famous urban expressway in Malmo, however I don't have any pics of that one either.

yeah! yan'an express way connect west and east in puxi district, driving on it is really amazing experience! it's high suspended, skyscrapers are listing both side, totally unbelievable!

NOT my pics, but it shows how much highways are in the Hartford area...

http://i9.tinypic.com/33uppbd.jpg

http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/141257/2/istockphoto_141257_aerial_over_complex_highway_curves.jpg

President George Bush Turnpike in Dallas is the best!
The stacks at the Tollway and Central Expressway are impressive... but sorry, the Central Expressway is in another league altogether and beats it like an unloved stepchild. GBT is just a big new road. The Central Expressway is a bigger, badder mother-of-all-urban-freeways road :-)

Be honest... do you get more of a thrill driving through Plano on GBT, or speeding through the Central Expressway's canyon downtown as it approaches the mixmaster... ~8+ lanes, air columns, cantilevered service road, neatly compartmentalized vegetation, and all?

The Central Expressway is absolutely one of the 5 best stretches of urban freeway in America, and easily one of the 10 best stretches of urban freeway in the world. It's the kind of road people from other states and countries look at, and say, "Damn... why can't we have cool roads like that?" :-)

http://www.devnullfoo.com/dallas/central/central1.jpg

http://www.devnullfoo.com/dallas/central/central2.jpg

http://www.devnullfoo.com/dallas/central/central3.jpg

http://www.devnullfoo.com/dallas/central/central4.jpg

That is nice...why does Texas have freeways that kick my state's freeway's ass?

I live in a city without any major freeways or express ways

at most we have one strip that has 3 lanes in each way but most are just 2 lanes each way

some pics anyway

here is an over all look at the major routes

the red ones are ones that are freeways the orange ones are just streets as they do have intersections and traffic lights and can be a pain in the ass to get anywhere

http://www.kaymarantours.com/images/map1.gif

highway 99 - the main route between Vancouver and Seattle - please note this freeway turns into a street once it crosses into Vancouver from Richmond - abruptly too - its like whoah

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Bc-99-rmd.jpg/800px-Bc-99-rmd.jpg

the East-West connector - gets you from Richmond to Delta/south surrey basically - it does have traffic lights on it as there are no freeway interchanges in parts :(

http://orca.bcnewsgroup.com/gallery-photos/albums/Day_in_the_Life/11_east_west_connector.jpg

this bridge is part of the east west connector

http://www.corp.delta.bc.ca/assets/Parks~Recreation~and~Culture/Graphics/alex%20fraser%20bridge.jpg

this is the bridge entrance on a local route

http://www.bip.gov.bc.ca/hwy91/QBIC_rendering/nwx2003_existing.jpg

same area
http://www.globalairphotos.com/images/bc/new_westminster/2006/nws2006_025.jpg

this is THE main freeway that runs thorugh the Vancouver area

http://www.globalairphotos.com/images/bc/vancouver/2006/vch2006_393.jpg

this is the same freeway - on the left - on the right is the lougheed highway - its got traffic lights etc. so its not anything to get you somewhere like an express route

http://www.globalairphotos.com/images/bc/coquitlam/2006/cqh2006_009.jpg

looks like it might be a freeway - but its just an overpass over the "freeway", the one - this is a new interchange recently completed creating much better flow

http://www.globalairphotos.com/images/bc/langley/2006/lgh2006_185.jpg

The M8 and M77 in Glasgow here, the motorway runs right trough the city centre.

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i154/Andy1l/Motorway03.jpg

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i154/Andy1l/Motorway02.jpg

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i154/Andy1l/Motorway01.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/15/92110735_02dbc620f1_m.jpg

http://cdn.tripadvisor.com/Images-g186534-d192416-b1391377S-M8_runs_past_hotel_but_no_noise_in_room-Hilton_Glasgow-Glasgow_Scotland.jpg

http://www.teleit.com/images/pentagon2.jpg

http://www.nhsgg.org.uk/content/mediaassets/images/m8_kingston_bridge_01_md.jpg

http://www.scottish-enterprise.com/m8.jpg

http://www.rmp.org.uk/assets/images/00Glasgow_Hilton_-_Day.jpg

That is nice...why does Texas have freeways that kick my state's freeway's ass?

Partly, because when the car-hating lefty-greenie types show up in Texas whining lies about the alleged impossibility of building your way out of congestion, Texans laugh at them and make the new road twice as wide as originally planned just to really piss them off and enjoy watching them turn red and sputter with rage. To a large extent, it's worked brilliantly. Texas is the only state in the country where congestion has meaningfully decreased over the past 10 years, despite double-digit population growth. And, to the horror of those same car-hating lefty-greenie types, other states (Florida, for one) have noticed Texas' success.

In Italy they are called "tangenziale/i"

Naples tangenziale

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m74/gatea1/napol3c08_75.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m74/gatea1/napol3c03_75hhhh.jpg

Rome tangenziale is called "Grande Raccordo Anulare (G.R.A.),a big highway around the Eternal City.

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m74/gatea1/gra.gif

Partly, because when the car-hating lefty-greenie types show up in Texas whining lies about the alleged impossibility of building your way out of congestion, Texans laugh at them and make the new road twice as wide as originally planned just to really piss them off and enjoy watching them turn red and sputter with rage. To a large extent, it's worked brilliantly. Texas is the only state in the country where congestion has meaningfully decreased over the past 10 years, despite double-digit population growth. And, to the horror of those same car-hating lefty-greenie types, other states (Florida, for one) have noticed Texas' success.

You know, I actually agree with you in a few points there...

Connecticut has to take some of Texas' ideas on this front...the traffic here is terrible, and is getting worse. And they are saying it could be twice as bad in 2020...

I like that the state is investing in public transport, but they should not neglect their highways in the process.

Toronto

QEW
http://www.onthighways.com/QEW_images/QEW_cl_141_TB.jpg

400
http://www.onthighways.com/hwy_400_images/400_cl_23_north.jpg

401
http://www.onthighways.com/hwy_401_images/401_cl_394_east.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v339/drjoe12/401/t.jpg

403
http://www.onthighways.com/hwy_402-403_images/403_cl_wchurchill_west.jpg

404
http://www.onthighways.com/hwy_404-406_images/404_cl_18_south.jpg

407
http://www.onthighways.com/hwy_407-409_images/407_cl_57_east.jpg

409
http://www.onthighways.com/hwy_407-409_images/409_cl_3_west.jpg

410
http://www.onthighways.com/hwy_410-427_images/410_cl_7_south.jpg

427
http://www.onthighways.com/hwy_410-427_images/427_cl_evans_north.jpg

DVP
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v339/drjoe12/401/36939751.jpg

Gardiner Expressway
http://k47.pbase.com/v3/67/580567/2/46897543.torontotwo.jpg

WHERE IS THAT ^^^ last pic? it reminds me of an asian city

Gardiner Expressway
http://k47.pbase.com/v3/67/580567/2/46897543.torontotwo.jpg

Wow...:eek2:

The last time I went to Toronto, there was much less development like that near the Gardiner...and that was 5 years ago...

The high-rise boom has been very kind to Toronto.

I live in a city without any major freeways or express ways

at most we have one strip that has 3 lanes in each way but most are just 2 lanes each way

some pics anyway

here is an over all look at the major routes

the red ones are ones that are freeways the orange ones are just streets as they do have intersections and traffic lights and can be a pain in the ass to get anywhere

http://www.kaymarantours.com/images/map1.gif




You're right. Freeways have been resisted in Vancouver because the taxpayers there don't want to pay the high costs of freeway construction, and because they realize that real estate prices for those holding properties close to the centre will be maximized if transportation is made more difficult than in comparable cities. It's really very clever of them. They save money on their property taxes by not building freeways, and then sit back and watch as those properties become ever more expensive. Nice game if you can get it!

And they are able to keep this kind of thing going because they are rich and therefore control the media and the provincial government. In recent years, however, the provincial government has been pressured by other businesses in the transport and manufacturing sectors to expand this very limited freeway system, not by linking any of it's parts into a whole, but just by widening Hwy 1, putting in more crossing capacity at the Port Mann Bridge, and buidling two more semi-freeway arterials, the North and South Fraser Perimeter Road. This project is encountering some opposition from fake environmental groups who are really just propaganda fronts, and are financed by the rich property owners who don't want their racket spoiled.

See this website:

http://www.livableregion.ca/

especially the "Blog" portion:

http://www.livableregion.ca/blog/blogs/index.php

It's a hoot! It's amazing how people who are determined to protect their property prices can hide behind the skirts of the environmental movement and concerns about GHGs and global warning, and get away with!

however only the 427 and the DVP and the Gardiner really cut into the urban part of the city.

The 401 and the 400 and the 404 run in the more suburban northern half of the city.

Drogowa Trasa Srednicowa, Katowice, Silesia
http://www.dts-sa.pl/HTML/images/0666.jpg
http://www.um.katowice.pl/pl/galeria/albums/userpics/normal_03_ul_Murckowska_1.jpg
http://www.um.katowice.pl/pl/galeria/albums/userpics/normal_04_ul_Murckowska_2.jpg
http://www.um.katowice.pl/pl/galeria/albums/userpics/normal_16_ul._Gornoslaska.jpg
http://www.um.katowice.pl/pl/galeria/albums/userpics/normal_18_Wezel_Gornoslaska_Murckowska.jpg
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z114/Bula8/DTS/04pazdziernik2007%20Zielen/ZielenDTS02.jpg
http://i12.tinypic.com/6fkcldw.jpg
http://i16.tinypic.com/4pe5q3p.jpg
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z114/Bula8/DTS/04pazdziernik2007%20Zielen/ZielenDTS08.jpg
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z114/Bula8/DTS/04pazdziernik2007%20Zielen/ZielenDTS19.jpg
http://images21.fotosik.pl/125/122ed50e7b9a7241.jpg
http://images20.fotosik.pl/179/fee1760c486b8b10.jpg
http://images20.fotosik.pl/179/dcd12bd6ff47b7d6.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y75/szapoklak/08.jpg
Here are trams, in underground are cars
http://images4.fotosik.pl/242/2c74d46f5c76e369.jpg
http://images1.fotosik.pl/295/9a78e841c4d55f92.jpg
http://images4.fotosik.pl/242/fc1e589cd1c692bc.jpg
http://images1.fotosik.pl/295/b4b6ef7a5e0c3994.jpg
http://www.mt.gov.pl/images/user/1/12d263154986c45cd3e76f9374213ec6.JPG
Roundabout in the grout, Drogowa Trasa Srednicowa in underground
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/dzosz/IMG_3357.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/dzosz/IMG_3358.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/dzosz/IMG_3359.jpg
http://images4.fotosik.pl/234/3d480fd5be36322c.jpg
http://images2.fotosik.pl/278/fb8dcfdae95b6054.jpg
http://images1.fotosik.pl/287/be5e56064d09dc3f.jpg
http://images2.fotosik.pl/278/25333df4ca30f273.jpg
http://images1.fotosik.pl/287/2e735c9b07a4e164.jpg



And today We haven't got any traffic jams in Katowice :)

^ Very nice.

Katowice is a commieblock heaven, isn't it? The commieblock heaven that has very nice road network :okay:

It's a popular opinion, but it is false. We've got commieblock, but Warsaw, Cracow, Kielce or Wroclaw has got many more. In Katowice is really good commieblock - for example Tauzen District (Osiedle Tysiąclecia). But we have got motherfuckers too - for example Superjednostka in the downtown.

New intersection at Loop 410 & US 281 in San Antonio, Texas
Found on Flicker.com - not my picture
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/9307/410ow2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Toronto's Gardiner Expressway, thats right... we don't use cars! (jk, its closed down for the Becel Ride for Heart)

http://i.treehugger.com/files/rideforheart.jpg

M3 inside Budapest
http://www.veke.hu/files/8/th820.jpg

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/1381/im000004an7.jpg

http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/9010/im000008uy4.jpg
-credit to Qtya for the last 2 pics
M5 inside Budapest
http://www.fomterv.hu/images/ref/villgep/m5_1.jpg
M1-M7 inside Budapest
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/6250/resizeofimg1820ii6.jpg

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/9597/resizeofimg1821qi5.jpg

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/3997/resizeofimg1822kr9.jpg

Here are some more pics of the M8 in Glasgow as Glasgowman has already shown you some pics.

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q95/The_Talking_orange/5.jpg
The Supports on the right hand side hold up a bridge with an office building on it.
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q95/The_Talking_orange/4.jpg
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q95/The_Talking_orange/3.jpg
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q95/The_Talking_orange/1.jpg

The M77 entering Glasgow.
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q95/The_Talking_orange/7.jpg

The new M74 completion route will 2x3 lanes and will meet up at the Kingston Bridge, one of Europes busiest bridges with about 200,000+ vehicles a day. It will start construction in 2008 along with the M80 upgrade to Falkirk.
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q95/The_Talking_orange/6.gif

In Lisbon :)
2º Circular

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/1271412_758be24c1d_b.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Highway_Juction.jpg

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/5744/auto2an3.jpg

Eixo-Norte Sul

http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/5343/eixonortesulinaugurao13sb3.jpg

http://img468.imageshack.us/img468/7995/eixonortesulinaugurao02bu2.jpg

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/9968/eixonortesulinaugurao01ce8.jpg

City motorway in Split, Croatia:
http://i22.tinypic.com/2hwitdk.jpg

http://i23.tinypic.com/wwnss0.jpg

http://i21.tinypic.com/2evyhqp.jpg

http://i22.tinypic.com/wk329l.jpg

http://i23.tinypic.com/28lyhau.jpg

http://i23.tinypic.com/rct5bt.jpg

http://i20.tinypic.com/n6rya1.jpg

http://i20.tinypic.com/ng3xg5.jpg

http://i20.tinypic.com/2lcmioj.jpg

http://i23.tinypic.com/2lnyhk2.jpg

http://i20.tinypic.com/70i59g.jpg

http://i23.tinypic.com/au7420.jpg

http://i24.tinypic.com/33e3rpf.jpg

http://i22.tinypic.com/2n376o.jpg

http://i22.tinypic.com/15cgc45.jpg

http://i24.tinypic.com/ao747n.jpg

All of these big streets are nice, but this sunny one is still my favourite :D :
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3c/Split_riva.jpg

Greetings from the south.... :cheers1:

Split is beautiful in May.
But in this expressway was lot of traffic jams.

Way to go Mate :okay: :okay: :okay:

P.S. Nema 4 trake u svakom smjeru :ohno: :D

Some photos of the North Circular Road (A406) in London :)

Briefly - it's an expressway, running through the London's northern suburbs. Usually, it has 2 or 3 lanes in each direction, mostly without hard shoulders, but there are few bottlenecks, where it returns to a single carriageway (1x2 / 1x3) road with traffic lights, going through residential areas :bash:


North Circular Road (Eastbound) in London - Picasa Web Album, 186 photos (http://picasaweb.google.com/a3c4b5/LondonA406NorthCircularRoadE)
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/NowyObraz-mapabitowa.jpg

Sample pictures:)

Stonebridge Park Junction
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_0877-1024.jpg

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_0882-1024.jpg

Near Neasden/Wembley
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_0930-1024.jpg

Staples Corner (where it meets M1 motorway)
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_0949-1024.jpg

On a flyover:)
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_0956-1024.jpg

Brent Cross
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_0963-1024.jpg

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_1015-1024.jpg

And a bottleneck in Arnos Grove area :( There are plans to widen it to 2 lanes in each direction. However, they don't include building grade separated junctions :(
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_1088-1024.jpg

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_1104-1024.jpg

And back on a true expressway :)
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_8695-1024.jpg

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_8706-1024.jpg

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_8750-1024.jpg

2x5 section before interchange with M11:)
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_8762-1024.jpg

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_8774-1024.jpg

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_8815-1024.jpg

Some photos from the A40 road in London :)

A40 in London - Hanger Lane to Edgware Road (incl. Westway flyover) - 52 pictures (http://picasaweb.google.com/a3c4b5/LondonA40MaryleboneFlyoverHangerLane)
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/huhuhhuhuhu.jpg
blue - motorway standard
red - just dual carriageway road :)

Beginning of the Marylebone Flyover :) This road was to become part of Ringway 1 (which never materialised).
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_1575-1024.jpg

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_1578-1024.jpg

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_1581-1024.jpg

Back on a flyover :) This road was built in a motorway standard. However, since about 2002 it is signed as a normal road (with a 50 mph speed limit).
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_1595-1024.jpg

White City in the background :)
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_1604-1024.jpg

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_1612-1024.jpg

The end of the expressway :(
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_1621-1024.jpg

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_1633-1024.jpg

Carriageway widening
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_1653-1024.jpg

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_1664-1024.jpg

Hanger Lane junction, where our journey ends :)
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/a3c4/IMG_1690-1024.jpg

Trasa Siekierkowska, Warsaw.
http://images33.fotosik.pl/23/05ee635d71928b48.jpg (www.fotosik.pl)
http://images31.fotosik.pl/23/86b4990f903985cc.jpg (www.fotosik.pl)
http://images31.fotosik.pl/23/b5b95f3669a1b5d8.jpg (www.fotosik.pl)
http://images31.fotosik.pl/23/79e683ba9b2bb1af.jpg (www.fotosik.pl)
http://images34.fotosik.pl/23/5250f3eab25531ed.jpg (www.fotosik.pl)

^^ Nice. :) I know Warsaw has no motorways, but it has expressways. Do you know some sites containing pictures of them (as many as possible)? I know there's much stuff in the Polish section, but threads are often without pictures, and there's so many of them.

Yes, in 2007 Warsaw still don't have any kilometer of real motorway (politics, wrong tender documents...). It's sad. We were close to start building the first section of S8 (part of Warsaw Ring), but probably we have to wait few months. :ohno:

I just took those pics from google :)

An other pics of M3's urban part. I have to add that its not even an expressway(for obvious reasons) and 80kmh is the limit, but its a direct continuation of the M3 motorway.
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/9366/resizeofimg3033cc0.jpg

Some Dutch urban.

1. However you won't say, this is in a build-up area. A4 near Den Haag.
http://www.roadpics.net/nl/A4/A4N/26.jpg

2. A4 entering Amsterdam.
http://www.roadpics.net/nl/A4/A4N/42.jpg

3. A10 ring Amsterdam.
http://www.roadpics.net/nl/A10/A10R/18.jpg

4. A10 Amsterdam, you don't want to live there. This stretch is often jammed, because the Coentunnel is only 2x2 lanes. :bash:
http://www.roadpics.net/nl/A10/A10R/21.jpg

5. A10 Amsterdam.
http://www.roadpics.net/nl/A10/A10L/3.jpg

6. A10 Amsterdam westside. Buildings over the motorway.
http://www.roadpics.net/nl/A10/A10L/5.jpg

7. A10 Amsterdam, multiple rail lines in the median.
http://www.roadpics.net/nl/A10/A10L/11.jpg

8. A12 in Den Haag. Again, buildings over the motorway.
http://www.roadpics.net/nl/A12/A12W/47.jpg

9. A15 in industrial Rotterdam.
http://www.roadpics.net/nl/A15/A15W/33.jpg

10. A16 near Rotterdam eastside.
http://www.roadpics.net/nl/A16/A16N/23.jpg

11. A20 near Rotterdam. This is the busiest Dutch 2x3 motorway.
http://www.roadpics.net/nl/A20/A20O/14.jpg

12. Old drawbridge in Rotterdam on the A20.
http://www.roadpics.net/nl/A20/A20W/12.jpg

13. A28 in Zwolle, a very urban motorway, since the motorway is cutting right through the city. Not very Dutch.
http://www.roadpics.net/nl/A28/A28Z/30.jpg

yes

^^
thanks Sha. Great post!

^^LMAO!

Sha for President!!! :lol:

M3
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/1832243.jpg
M1/M7 at night:
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/914980.jpg
M5:
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/1925303.jpg
junction of M0-M7:
http://www.panoramio.com/photos/original/749038.jpg
hope they aren't reposts

No, i haven't seen them but they are quite large. I don't have a 40 inch monitor...

Not everytime bigger means better. Resize those photos, pleaaaase!

Examples of Prague urban expressways:

Jižní spojka:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Ji%C5%BEn%C3%AD_spojka2%2C_Prague_Bran%C3%ADk.jpg/800px-Ji%C5%BEn%C3%AD_spojka2%2C_Prague_Bran%C3%ADk.jpg

Barrandovský most, JP
http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/118/800pxbarrandebridgewp8.jpg

Chodovská radiála:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Prague_Chodov_D1_Highway2.jpg/800px-Prague_Chodov_D1_Highway2.jpg

Prosecká radiála, most Barikádníků
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/7327/barikadnikupanoii6.jpg

Evropská třída (European avenue) between Vítězné náměstí (V. square) in Prague 6 and Ruzyně International Airport
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/4017/1498916ge1.jpg

Not everytime bigger means better. Resize those photos, pleaaaase!
sorry dont know how to do that

Not everytime bigger means better. Resize those photos, pleaaaase!
I agree, 800x600 is enough.

sorry dont know how to do that
Just open Your picture in MS Paint, press ctrl+w, insert new size (as a percentage of old size) into menu, press ok, save the picture.

Then upload picture at imageshack or panoramio or whatever.
And i think imageshack has also tools for resizing pictures.

Wow, beautiful pictures of Prague! That's a lot more colorful/colourful than I would have expected! Well done.

Wow, beautiful pictures of Prague! That's a lot more colorful/colourful than I would have expected! Well done.

If you want to see more pictures of urban expressways in Prague, let's have look at this (http://www.ceskedalnice.cz/foto/mof1/) gallery of Inner Ring in Prague.

Two pictures as invitation:

Junction at Smíchov
http://www.ceskedalnice.cz/foto/mof1/slides/mof09.jpg

Zlíchov Tunnel
http://www.ceskedalnice.cz/foto/mof1/slides/HPIM0778.JPG

Question: Why do we(Americans)drive on the right side. Im a lefty and would love that left hand side driving. Anyway this is a TexaS freeway again!!!
San Antonio, TeXaS - United States of America! !! I present "The WeB" underconstruction Hwy 281 and Loop 410
by Sooner Shooter - Flickr.com

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/1461/410zq3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

beijing
http://www.beijingupdates.com/forum/UploadFile/2007-11/200711819444120546.jpg

^^
thanks Sha. Great post!

:lol::lol::lol: i don't remember why did i say this

Sha for President!!! :lol:


:lol::lol:

That's already 3 worthy posts from _Sha_ here. Deserves to be a mod. :cheers:

hmm you're so kind, thank you :)

^ However, it's very hard to become a mod here. :D

Erie:

http://www.canhighways.com/Pa/PHOTOS/I79_Pa_3.jpg
http://www.canhighways.com/Pa/PHOTOS/I79_Pa_3_lg.jpg

Question: Why do we(Americans)drive on the right side. Im a lefty and would love that left hand side driving. Anyway this is a TexaS freeway again!!!
San Antonio, TeXaS - United States of America! !! I present "The WeB" underconstruction Hwy 281 and Loop 410
by Sooner Shooter - Flickr.com

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/1461/410zq3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

I'm pretty sure you guys drive on the right hand side of the road because at the time of the decision, you guys saw driving on the right as a 'rebellion tactic' against Great Britain. At that time in your history, you were also siding up to France (Britain's oldest enemy) - who happen to drive on the right. You chose the right hand side to piss off the British :)

A lot of countries drive on the left though, mostly former Commonwealth colonies (Aust, NZ, UK, Ireland, maybe even India) - I'm sure you'll get the chance to experience it sometime in your life :)

^^
India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, etc,etc.....

Szczecin , Poland

http://szczecinonline.com/admin/foto/1201288494.jpg
http://images23.fotosik.pl/38/956aaf2554dccc3f.jpg
http://img297.echo.cx/img297/7067/img93041sd.jpg
http://img297.echo.cx/img297/1210/img93026tc.jpg
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/7708/img10655ua.jpg
http://images22.fotosik.pl/154/2f11c8c8cee9a06a.jpg
http://images23.fotosik.pl/52/f4f8557033c513ad.jpg
http://images25.fotosik.pl/52/3dc0aa87d4d3ebac.jpg
http://images23.fotosik.pl/52/b77e8dae7eaad420.jpg
http://images29.fotosik.pl/133/2145fe547c54bf72.jpg
http://img297.echo.cx/img297/9853/panorama2vz.jpg
http://www.wbv.pl/images/mrmh3ddmyk2ekg2znzwu.jpg
http://www.wbv.pl/images/je4mtmm23q0qyomzmgzw.jpg
http://www.wbv.pl/images/jzxgejiwmym2zhwzmmzt.jpg
http://images23.fotosik.pl/38/e5eed02d731abeeb.jpg
http://images13.fotosik.pl/32/a6d8716096ae1e08.jpg

Gdynia, Poland

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c395/dziarskihank/Gdynia/esta1.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/hennepin/100_2120.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/hennepin/100_2121.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/hennepin/100_2131.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/hennepin/100_2145.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/hennepin/100_2139.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/hennepin/100_2144.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/hennepin/100_2154.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/hennepin/100_2165.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/hennepin/100_2155.jpg
http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x228/beczkarz1/IMG_6411.jpg

Some Melbourne Freeways

Westgate Freeway

http://www.hotkey.net.au/~krool/photos/vic/Citylink3.jpg

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/7/75/300px-West_Gate_Bridge.jpg

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2005/10/02/n_westgate_0310_wideweb__430x258.jpg

http://www.ziuadecj.ro/action/article?ID=9212

A new highway will be built between Transylvania Highway and the town of Dej, crossing through Nokia plant in Jucu. It will have 75 Km, and will cost ~8 milion euros for each Km. I will begin in Gilau, will be linked with Transylvania Highway at Luna Interchange, will saround Cluj-Napoca by South, will pass near Cluj International Airport, and will continue towards Jucu and finaly Dej. The construction will start in April.


Lucrările la “autostrada Nokia” încep în aprilie

Lucrările la autostrada urbană Gilău-Jucu (cu extindere spre Dej) vor începe la finele lunii aprilie, au declarat pentru ZIUA de Cluj surse din administraţie. În total, autostrada va măsura 75 de kilometri. Costurile au fost evaluate la peste opt milioane de euro pe kilometru. Lucrarea va începe de la nodul rutier din localitatea Jucu.
Compania Naţională de Autostrăzi şi Drumuri Naţionale din România (CNADNR) pregăteşte deja licitaţia pentru atribuirea lucrării de execuţie a autostrăzii urbane, au precizat surse din administraţie. Şi arhitectul judeţului, Radu Spânu, a confirmat că aprilie este termenul la care a fost programată începerea lucrărilor.

“Conform proiectului, lucrarea va debuta spre finele lui aprilie, începând de la nodul denivelat din localitatea Jucu”, a precizat arhitectul. Acesta a explicat că reprezentanţii companiei de proiectare Iptana trebuie să finalizeze studiul de fezabilitate până în martie, urmând ca mai apoi CNADNR să poată organiza licitaţia pentru execuţia lucrării.

Trebuie reamintit că autostrada urbană Gilău – Jucu măsura, în proiectul iniţial, peste 40 de kilometri, iar preţul de realizare a fost estimat la aproximativ 370.000.000 de euro.

Ulterior, s-a decis prelungirea autostrăzii spre Dej cu 35 de kilometri, costurile devenind aproape duble. Autostrada ar urma să se desfăşoare pe patru benzi. Porneşte din comuna Gilău, se intersectează cu nodul denivelat de drumuri de la capătul sudic al comunei Luna şi coboară dealurile până la sud de localitatea Floreşti, în zona unităţii militare.

Traseul parcurge mai departe zona Floreşti până la Cetatea Fetei. Apoi se îndreaptă spre municipiul Cluj-Napoca, prin Făget, în paralel cu centura ocolitoare a Primăriei – tronsonul sud. De aici, drumul ajunge în zona străzilor Câmpului şi E. Ionescu, intră pe strada C. Brâncuşi, H. Coandă şi zona Selgros.

Traversează Băile Someşeni şi intră în zona de locuinţe până la capătul pistei de aterizare-decolare a aeroportului, unde se întretaie cu intersecţia denivelată DN1C (Aurel Vlaicu, Traian Vuia). Ocoleşte apoi localităţile Sânicoară şi Apahida şi continuă prin Jucu spre Dej.


SOURCE: Ziua de Cluj

Donostia-San Sebastián (Basque Country, Spain)

Urumea new expressway:

a8pVWPi5GbE

afhQmWC5dJs

Videos by BPT.

Donostia-San Sebastián (Basque Country, Spain)

Urumea new expressway:

a8pVWPi5GbE

afhQmWC5dJs

Videos by BPT.

Some videos more by BPT:

Eibar (Basque Country, Spain) expressway:
9I_ARLpLkro

Ballonti (Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain) expressway:
qZymipRubxk

Video by Mabuse:

Donostia-San Sebastian (Basque Country, Spain). AP-8.
oXrIlD0T5XE

Tolosa avenue (Donostia-San Sebastian), exit to N-I and AP-8 (Basque Country, Spain).
shK1o6nHMNI

Warsaw:

http://images34.fotosik.pl/216/6344ab6cdea877e0.jpg

http://images27.fotosik.pl/194/f983372f443fc86a.jpg

http://images34.fotosik.pl/216/86a2b0366701d493.jpg

http://images33.fotosik.pl/216/544360cb77a5f8f6.jpg

http://images31.fotosik.pl/216/2242eaccacfd7711.jpg

http://images31.fotosik.pl/216/24e314d500a9a56a.jpg

I think that is Siekierkowska Route. Praga (one of Warsaw's districts) needs bypass as well, civilised one ;)

I think that is Siekierkowska Route.

Indeed

Upper Silesian Industrial Region

DTŚ Drogowa Trasa Średnicowa


http://images32.fotosik.pl/225/866a64253e0d14b9.jpg (www.fotosik.pl)

http://images34.fotosik.pl/226/cd32c1e955a18f78.jpg (www.fotosik.pl)

http://images29.fotosik.pl/199/ab0b579d645b9dee.jpg (www.fotosik.pl)

http://images31.fotosik.pl/225/cd8f3d166e916e97.jpg (www.fotosik.pl)

http://images26.fotosik.pl/200/db690540f00753bb.jpg (www.fotosik.pl)

http://images31.fotosik.pl/225/5718d474206b7ee9.jpg (www.fotosik.pl)

When this part of DTŚ will be opened ?

^^ I've heard before May 1st, but it may as well be June

Tel Aviv's Ayalon Freeway:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/he/thumb/2/2f/Ayalon2.jpg/450px-Ayalon2.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/he/thumb/2/28/AyalonRailWithTrain.jpg/800px-

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Azrli_29.JPG/800px-Azrli_29.JPG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/he/thumb/a/a9/Ayalon22.jpg/800px-Ayalon22.jpg

Jerusalem's Begin Expressway:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Begin_road_%28Jerusalem%29.JPG/800px-

All pics from Wikipedia.

Traffic jam on Chorzowska street in Katowice

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/7164/ch50korekdogrundmannawift6.jpg

Crossing on Chorzowska Street

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Katowice_-_Widok_z_niebieskich_blok%C3%B3w_01.jpg/800px-Katowice_-_Widok_z_niebieskich_blok%C3%B3w_01.jpg


A4 Highway in Katowice's suburbs

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b142/lucek78/P1110107.jpg?t=1187639154

http://www.ossa.org.pl/ossa07/images/silesiafoto1.jpg

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk100/kiwikaas/8-6/NZ-Aus2008139.jpg

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk100/kiwikaas/8-6/NZ-Aus2008140.jpg

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk100/kiwikaas/8-6/NZ-Aus2008202.jpg

Tel Aviv's Ayalon Freeway:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/he/thumb/2/2f/Ayalon2.jpg/450px-Ayalon2.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/he/thumb/2/28/AyalonRailWithTrain.jpg/800px-

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Azrli_29.JPG/800px-Azrli_29.JPG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/he/thumb/a/a9/Ayalon22.jpg/800px-Ayalon22.jpg

Jerusalem's Begin Expressway:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Begin_road_%28Jerusalem%29.JPG/800px-

All pics from Wikipedia.
Those shots make me wonder how come, after all these years, nary a photo showing the plain sides of those Israeli cities has been shared...thanks, it's been my first time peeking at those towns.

Info on Athens' Ring Motorway:
http://www.aodos.gr/default.asp?mediaid=117&rootcatid=12066&defaultcatid=12066&?novalue=1
:)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3187/2598303282_db81317cea_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3276/2598255953_c866bc1221_b.jpg

Shanghai's Yan'An Expressway (延安高架) - all photos by me;

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2153/2231117369_1eb0471e0e_o.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1403/1383593094_5f8eee9a4a_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/105/310436100_0f896cd782_o.jpg

Mexico City

Periferico Loop:

http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/7156/perifericonortezw5fz4.jpg

http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/8146/segundopiso2dr5di1.jpg

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/1360/23662691731501f86285b1mvk5.jpg

http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/8328/186956716c74cc3dbbdbkk9tb6.jpg

http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/2306/hpim2255large6zebx6fm8.jpg

The segunda circular-eixo norte sul-CRIL- stack interchange A1/A10

http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1&realattid=f_fhfc6joz0&attid=0.1&disp=inline&view=att&th=11a84023f6ac4b23

http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1&realattid=f_fh5ci8db0&attid=0.1&disp=inline&view=att&th=11a5ffc6641468b3

http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1&realattid=f_fgwsh3a10&attid=0.1&disp=inline&view=att&th=11a412730c489482

http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1&realattid=f_fgwailc72&attid=0.1&disp=inline&view=att&th=11a3f594a04c3942

http://www.cril-segura.com/ruido_desenho.gif

The segunda circular-eixo norte sul-CRIL- stack interchange A1/A10

http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1&realattid=f_fhfc6joz0&attid=0.1&disp=inline&view=att&th=11a84023f6ac4b23

http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1&realattid=f_fh5ci8db0&attid=0.1&disp=inline&view=att&th=11a5ffc6641468b3

http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1&realattid=f_fgwsh3a10&attid=0.1&disp=inline&view=att&th=11a412730c489482

http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1&realattid=f_fgwailc72&attid=0.1&disp=inline&view=att&th=11a3f594a04c3942

http://www.cril-segura.com/ruido_desenho.gif

Trasa Kwiatkowskiego, Gdynia. Close to an expressway standards. Selection of pics.
From Tricity bypass to Gdynia :
http://images33.fotosik.pl/336/cec7b1105ff61ea0.jpg

http://images27.fotosik.pl/256/d6fa5b4966fb5f01.jpg

http://images28.fotosik.pl/257/009f0b1d2d8117b1.jpg

http://images31.fotosik.pl/335/3e5f9b94e545bb21.jpg

http://images24.fotosik.pl/257/8b7464ea608d7ea4.jpg

http://images28.fotosik.pl/257/c43a0d72f0890e69.jpg

http://images27.fotosik.pl/256/513ac1730603bc7f.jpg

http://images32.fotosik.pl/328/23ae31b8dedd5c37.jpg

http://images34.fotosik.pl/328/ec560eb9dfc97b81.jpg

http://images33.fotosik.pl/336/d53148b47d82d13f.jpg

http://images33.fotosik.pl/336/c0893b9fe92c7474.jpg

http://images32.fotosik.pl/328/bb6955b1fcf6e43b.jpg

http://images30.fotosik.pl/257/c72d79daa020c825.jpg

http://images24.fotosik.pl/257/725970bc5073ede6.jpg


Opposite direction:
http://images28.fotosik.pl/257/5382a13faf49e06a.jpg

http://images34.fotosik.pl/328/06bc87846d9e5d1e.jpg

http://images34.fotosik.pl/328/da096cea315e2813.jpg

http://images32.fotosik.pl/328/6211ceb4a0cdb843.jpg

http://images27.fotosik.pl/256/eb867cd0bc92f4c8.jpg

http://images33.fotosik.pl/336/ee56411bb42f2fe6.jpg

http://images32.fotosik.pl/328/04d295956212fe0c.jpg

http://images23.fotosik.pl/256/8e9fd59dc8c02d27.jpg

http://images30.fotosik.pl/257/ffba62d0bd93ca8d.jpg

http://images33.fotosik.pl/336/33bbe0a230f947c4.jpg

http://images34.fotosik.pl/328/760f4547e706252f.jpg

http://images23.fotosik.pl/256/b913601f89600920.jpg

http://images29.fotosik.pl/256/5f62867f23e45dec.jpg

http://images24.fotosik.pl/257/424c9c8f3d324b45.jpg

http://images33.fotosik.pl/336/84d763accfdc59a4.jpg

All pictures (with polish comments): click here (”http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=23389932&postcount=1773”) and here (”http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=23410834&postcount=1781”)

double post

Melbourne:

http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/1446/fwy10ui1.jpg

http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/6461/fwy11jb9.jpg

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/1228/fwy12nd0.jpg

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/2910/fwy13mn4.jpg

http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/1696/fwy14fx0.jpg

http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/796/fwy15mc2.jpg

http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/4711/fwy16hm5.jpg

Bolte Bridge

http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/1149/fwy17jo1.jpg

Imagine if someone is giving you directions jajaj :)

http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/2927/26667377242f8042da9fbcx2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

ISTANBUL

http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/6615/35000344fp2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

ISTANBUL

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/4720/66385420aq8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
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ANKARA

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Airport Expressway
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South Exit
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West Expressway
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Why in Istanbul bus lanes in these pics do busses run on left?

IZMIR

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Bornova Exit
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Why in Istanbul bus lanes in these pics do busses run on left?

It's Metrobus line. Metrobus vehicles has exit doors on their right side :) that's why :)
In the middle of expressway. Not allowed to other cars in except Metrobus vehicles.

BURSA (4TH. BIGGEST CITY OF TURKEY)

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West / North connect tunnel
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Great pics, _Sha_!

Why is one motorway sign green and the other one blue? Does Turkey use both of them, like Italy or Albania? What's the difference?http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/1475/90695620qo8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/1457/86481815gd7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Great pics, _Sha_!

Why is one motorway sign green and the other one blue? Does Turkey use both of them, like Italy or Albania? What's the difference?

Thanks!
GREEN SIGNS mean, highway & highway passing through city urban area and after toll plazas these highways are called expressway (Çevreyolu) Green signed highways in Istanbul are part of TEM (Trans European Motorway) and in Ankara, Izmir and Bursa (cities which located in Asia), I think green signed highways will be connected to TEM in the future.
Ankara - Istanbul highway (Anatolian Highway) has already been connected with TEM.
BLUE SIGNS mean, to show intercity roads / connections which do not have highway standards.
WHITE SIGNS mean, to show urban / metropolitan areas in the city (the city center or suburb for example)

^^ Thanks, but what about the sign for the beginning or the end of motorway? Why is the first one green and the second one blue?

Istanbul is a traffic horrorscene. It's almost always jammed because the metropolitan area of 11 million have only 2 through motorways.

Drogowa Trasa Średnicowa (Upper Silesian Aglomeration Bypass) - photos from www.dts-sa.pl


Sokolska Street over DTS in Katowice

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Tunnel under Zietka Roundabout

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Tunnel's Exit - view from West

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Escpade in Chorzow (You can see Stalexport Twin Towers in the middle of image)

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The same

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The same third time ;)

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Tunnel under Zietka Roundbout - enter from West

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Tunnel under Zietka Roundbout - enter from East

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In the tunnel

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And when we leave the tunnel we can see this:

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^^ Thanks, but what about the sign for the beginning or the end of motorway? Why is the first one green and the second one blue?

If it's firstly green and second blue; it's the end of highway to national road or exit from highway into national road.
If it's firstly blue and second green; it's the beginnig of highway or entrance to highway from national road.

Istanbul is a traffic horrorscene. It's almost always jammed because the metropolitan area of 11 million have only 2 through motorways.

Unfortunately you're right :(
The higways and expressways in Istanbul are not adequate. Everyday tens of new cars are attending to traffic but we still have 2 transit highways which are connected with Bosphorus bridges.
But I think the goverment is planning 3rd Bosphorus bridge and new expressway now for the north part of city but most of people (including me)
do not support this project because of the risk of pillage of environment.

By the way, our metropolitan cities have population;
Istanbul : 12 573 836 est. 2007
Ankara : 4 466 756 est. 2007
Izmir : 3 739 353 est. 2007
Bursa : 2 439 876 est. 2007

Traffic jams are bad for the environment too, but Istanbul needs more of a world mass transit rather than cover the whole city with LA style motorway network.

Istanbul has a very small metronetwork for it's size. Only one real subway line, the rest is light rail or suburban rail.