Okay, everybody knows Iraq from the war, but let's put that aside for a moment.

Iraqi highways.
http://lh6.google.com/andy.adyns/Ry7rIlw9KRI/AAAAAAAALDQ/lDuhm4xkN4I/IRAQI%20FREEDOM%20%28154%29.jpg?imgmax=912

http://lh5.google.com/andy.adyns/Ry7rJVw9KSI/AAAAAAAALDY/lBEPvVlB_ec/1-64%20arm%20C%20cpy%20thunder%20run%201.jpg?imgmax=912

http://lh6.google.com/andy.adyns/Ry7rOlw9KUI/AAAAAAAALDw/pcFfPC9oAkc/A%20107.jpg?imgmax=800

This might be already in Kuwait
http://lh3.google.com/andy.adyns/Ry7rW1w9KZI/AAAAAAAALEk/AQuq2sBSez4/Kuwait%20city.JPG?imgmax=800

http://lh6.google.com/andy.adyns/Ry7rYlw9KaI/AAAAAAAALEs/tRrOVfeEqYY/Convoy%2001.jpg?imgmax=912

http://lh5.google.com/andy.adyns/Ry7rbVw9KbI/AAAAAAAALE8/aDlzSxMMHhk/DSC00979.JPG?imgmax=800

Yes, German-style signs.
http://lh4.google.com/andy.adyns/Ry7rnFw9KjI/AAAAAAAALGE/3njYSeNYBwU/IMG_2548.JPG?imgmax=800

Maximum 110km/h, minimum 100km/h.
http://lh6.google.com/andy.adyns/Ry7rolw9KkI/AAAAAAAALGM/rcKakvhViXw/IMG_2622.JPG?imgmax=800

http://lh6.google.com/andy.adyns/Ry7rplw9KlI/AAAAAAAALGU/PWENv-Y1qfA/IMG_2748.JPG?imgmax=800

http://lh4.google.com/andy.adyns/Ry7rwFw9KsI/AAAAAAAALHU/QhBjAmTK4SE/DSCF0142.JPG?imgmax=800

http://lh6.google.com/andy.adyns/Ry7rwlw9KtI/AAAAAAAALHc/pk5dr0j1ddc/thunder%20run%202%20%201-64%20TF%203-15%20C%20cpy.jpg

This pic is taking during invasion of Iraq, fighting between the Iraqi army and US military was still going on then.
http://lh5.google.com/andy.adyns/Ry7rzVw9KvI/AAAAAAAALH0/LZRH8no7vb4/obj%20saints%20040403%20%20wheeled%20package.jpg

http://lh3.google.com/andy.adyns/Ry7rz1w9KwI/AAAAAAAALH8/K6HUeDIEskE/obj%20saints%20engineers%20baghdad%20060403.jpg

http://lh5.google.com/andy.adyns/Ry7r0Vw9KxI/AAAAAAAALIE/aMaWQCW8330/Hets%20in%20action.jpg?imgmax=800

http://lh6.google.com/andy.adyns/Ry7sHlw9K8I/AAAAAAAALJw/bPQ7h6UJKfQ/2%20bde%20mortars.jpg?imgmax=912

http://lh6.google.com/andy.adyns/Ry7sNlw9K_I/AAAAAAAALKI/glAjAVB7x9E/55.jpg?imgmax=912

German type signs, small road numbers though.
http://lh6.google.com/andy.adyns/Ry7sPlw9LAI/AAAAAAAALKY/Z1TZSKdEKVk/485.JPG?imgmax=912

http://lh6.google.com/andy.adyns/Ry7sRlw9LCI/AAAAAAAALKo/nwmgpRck8BE/CIMG0417.JPG?imgmax=912

http://lh3.google.com/andy.adyns/Ry7sV1w9LFI/AAAAAAAALLA/mzX4ce4hdVs/DF-ST-92-09337.jpg?imgmax=912

http://lh6.google.com/andy.adyns/Ry7sZlw9LII/AAAAAAAALLg/3gISSVt3Pu8/BasrahSign.jpg

http://lh4.google.com/andy.adyns/Ry7scFw9LKI/AAAAAAAALL0/I4v-WjqdXiU/DM-SD-04-11426.jpg?imgmax=912

Not sure where this is, apparantly not Iraq. Maybe Jordan or Saudi arabia.
http://lh4.google.com/andy.adyns/Ry7sqFw9LTI/AAAAAAAALM8/06QckqwfghU/386197599_f94bd39c5e_b.jpg?imgmax=800

What if you wanna drive 95 or 115 km/h? Which is btw necessary, if you wanna accelerate from 90 to 100 or 110 to 120 km/h. And I don't know where you'd put Kuwait City and Doha in the same place. Only in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

On the first pic...are those mines?

I got a couple shots from the south.. brb ( I've driven more km in Iraq than I have Europe :) )

Okay - just been browsing my pics and I unfortunatly dont have many from real highways as we mainly kept to smaller streets and city areas..

In the Danish south there were two important highways, the Tampa Supply Rute and the HW6 ( Highway 6 ), both going from the south and north to and beyond Baghdad..

Tampa Supply Rute was new and shiny ( by Iraqi standards ) and mainly used for transportation of stuff as it went from Kuwait and north and never really hit anywhere populated in our AOR - since noone lived there we rarely went there except for securing convoys..

Highway 6 on the other hand ( going from the southern tip of the Al Faw peninsula trough Basra up to Baghdad ) was old and crummy and alway crowded..


Here's a video of HW6 just south of Basra ( the large building in the end is Basra techcollege )
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Since I was uploading anyway here's a sidestreet on the Al Faw peninsula
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Crossing Supply rute Tampa
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Here's some Italian forces wepassed on Tampa just north of Kuwait
http://i15.tinypic.com/6sipzbd.jpg

Sign in Basra airport
http://i1.tinypic.com/836o6kp.jpg

Highway 6 overpass signs
http://i2.tinypic.com/6lig2e9.jpg

Highway 6 checkpoint
http://i13.tinypic.com/72stus1.jpg

Highway 6 - Basra citygate
http://i6.tinypic.com/7y7zrix.jpg


I'm sorry for the lack of sound and poor picture quality - the pics and film was taken by my old ( 2002 ) Cybershot...

Very intersting shots and videos.
The motorway near (or in) Kuwait looks quite nice and wide.

Are there any intercity motorways or just near urban areas?

Has anybody noticed that each lane get a different minimum and max speed limit in the first picture?

Freki, do you used to be Mr Denmark? (all those name changes are confusing)

140 km/h speed limit in left lane at 3 lane motorways! very interesting!!

http://lh4.google.com/andy.adyns/Ry7sqFw9LTI/AAAAAAAALM8/06QckqwfghU/386197599_f94bd39c5e_b.jpg?imgmax=800

this is in syria....

Freki, do you used to be Mr Denmark? (all those name changes are confusing)Yep :)

Iraq Road map:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/iraq_rel_2004.jpg



Baghdad - Amman

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Autobahn-amman-baghdad.jpeg

more pics?

Looks good :)

Radi would be pissed at them because everything is covered with dust and not shiny :lol:

Cool pics Freki. I guess you are with the army?

Amazing, I've always heard that Iraq had a well advanced motorway network, but I didn't know it was this good. Well, was good. The infrastructure needs some refurbishing.

I Think 140km/h is the highest speed limit I've ever saw!!

Some stretch in Italy has a 150 limit.

No, it hasn't.

UAE's freeways have 160km/h limit.
And there was a test 160km/h stretch in Austria, but I believe that it wasn't pernament and now it's good ol' 130km/h again.

Some stretch in Italy has a 150 limit.

No, it hasn't.

As far as I know, they've been discussed the 150 limit at the parliament, and as far as I know, some sections could recieve a 150 limit based on their geometry, traffic volumes and safety records, though there isn't any 150 limit Autostrada so far.

Ok, then I misunderstood the issue. That 160 limit in the UAE sounds real dangerous, considering there are a lot of SUV's there. My cousin got killed doing 200 kmh between Dubai and Abu Dhabi, her brother (passenger) survived miraculously.

THAI Soldiers in IRAQ 2003-2004


We built many rural roads in Karbala.


http://web.schq.mi.th/~j5/heart/prd-english140647.htm


http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/997/134121072077338gc0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/4848/1341sr0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/9499/97620road331cz3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/7794/97620road335qj9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/736/976iraq96ei2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/6707/976road445zd6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/1875/976road5za7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/2255/976hotel1hd7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/6756/resize20of209760611466qb4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/4247/resize20of209760611467rh5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/7703/a40983071003123423ox8.jpg

http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/3454/976iraqgirlou0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

That 160 limit in the UAE sounds real dangerous, considering there are a lot of SUV's there.

There is no 160 limit in the UAE. The maximumspeed is 120 km/h on motorways. I have never seen a higher limit there.

Cool pics Freki. I guess you are with the army?I was - now I'm just a lazy civilian :)

Interesting photos

iraq had an excellent infrastructure before us sanctions began; roads, railways, hospitals, education - the works

I hope Iraq will be once again a free-happy country. Thousand of years old Mesopotamia culture will eventually find its way out.

And Iraq probably would still have good infrastructure if it hadn't of decided to wage war on it's neighbour.

You can't blame the US for that, the sanctions it suffered were justified!

You can't blame the US for that, the sanctions it suffered were justified!

No they weren't. The U.S. prevented much needed civilian aid from reaching the country by classifying it, absurdly, as "dual-use", as if somehow food and medicine could be turned into weapons.:bash:

As a result of these nefarious sanctions, 500,000 Iraqi children died and the country became one of the poorest and least developed in the world. But then again, the West never cared for the welfare of the Iraqi people. Hussein was a good guy compared to the butchery the two U.S.-led invasions caused.

America should suffer sanctions as a result of its egregious and murderous war.

No they weren't. The U.S. prevented much needed civilian aid from reaching the country by classifying it, absurdly, as "dual-use", as if somehow food and medicine could be turned into weapons.:bash:

As a result of these nefarious sanctions, 500,000 Iraqi children died and the country became one of the poorest and least developed in the world. But then again, the West never cared for the welfare of the Iraqi people. Hussein was a good guy compared to the butchery the two U.S.-led invasions caused.

America should suffer sanctions as a result of its egregious and murderous war.

And this self-loathing rant has to do with Iraqi roads in what way?

iraq had an excellent infrastructure before us sanctions began; roads, railways, hospitals, education - the works

Yeah, 10 years of lost wars with your neighboors have nothing to do with it at all... :lol:

Anyone has an information about roads connecting Iraq to Iran?

There is no 160 limit in the UAE. The maximumspeed is 120 km/h on motorways. I have never seen a higher limit there.

Dubai - AD highway has a speed limit of 160km/h.

Dubai - AD highway has a speed limit of 160km/h.

No the limit is 120 km/h, but speed camera's in AD won't flash until you're driving over 160 km/h. So everybody drives 160 km/h...

In Dubai they do flash when you go over 120 km/h though!

any photos?

post road sign pics!

Why don't you take some? Iraq is not that far away from Iran ;)

Many roads in Iraq were built by Brazilian contractors in the 1980s, does anyone know more about that, like which roads?

Why don't you take some? Iraq is not that far away from Iran ;)

:lol: It's not easy to go to iraq. you have to have visa and you have to go in caravans not by your own. And now I am not in Iran.

Vous avez détruit ce pays !

What is this??? Mining?
http://lh6.ggpht.com/andy.adyns/Ry7rOlw9KUI/AAAAAAAALDw/pcFfPC9oAkc/s800/A+107.jpg

^^ No one would put a mine so obvieous on the ground. maybe they want to blow up the asphalt for reconstrucion.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/54/131978013_ee23ca6c16.jpg

Freeway #2 Baghdad-Turkey and Syria Border will be cosntructed. Anyone has a detailed map of the project? and where will Freeway #3 and 4 be in the future?
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تتجه وزارة الاعمار والاسكان نحو تنفيذ طريق المرور السريع رقم (2)، هذا الطريق الحيوي الذي يربط بغداد بسوريا وبغداد وتركيا.
وقال مدير طرق المرور السريع المهندس نهاد قاسم محمد، في حديث لـ"الصباح" ان الوزارة تعكف على مفاتحة مجلس الوزراء بخصوص تنفيذ طريق المرور السريع رقم (2) عن طريق الاستثمار الاجنبي ويعد اهم المشاريع للفترة المقبلة.
"ولفت الى ان كلفة المشروع تبلغ مئات المليارات وهي خارج تخصيصات الوزارة ما حدا بها للتفكير وتحويله الى الاستثمار المباشر.
"وقال: ان هذا المشروع من المشاريع الستراتيجية الذي يربط بغداد بالمحافظات الشمالية ودول الجوار اضافة الى الربط بالمحافظات الشمالية فيما بينها لافتا الى حيوية المشروع وجدواه الاقتصادية التي ستوفر للبلاد ايرادات متنوعة بما يعزز موارد الموازنة العامة وذلك من خلال الترانزيت ونقل البضائع والسلع وتطوير التجارة مع دول الجوار والعالم الخارجي.
" وقال قاسم :ان مشروع المرور السريع هذا يعد ثاني اكبر المشاريع ويتضمن انشاء جسور ومحطات استراحة وخدمات عامة، ومكملا لمشروع القناة الجافة الذي ابدى البنك الدولي استعداده لتمويله.
"واشار الى المعوقات التي حالت دون تنفيذه والمتعلقة بالتمويل، لافتا الى انه باستطاعة الشركات المنفذة ان تحصل على جباية من مستخدمي الطريق لاستعادة اموالها على المشروع وتأهيله وصيانته والارباح ايضا.
" ولفت الى ان هناك مشاريع اخرى في طريقها للتنفيذ منها تقاطع من ثلاثة طوابق بكلفة 34 مليار دولار سينفذ من قبل شركة حمورابي في القريب العاجل.
" واعاد الى الاذهان مراحل انجاز مشروع المرور السريع رقم (1) وقال صمم هذا المشروع من قبل مكتب الاستشاري الالماني " دوش كونسلت " وبكلفة 3 مليارات دولار وبطول 1200 كم ويتكون من 6 ممرات ثلاثة منها للذهاب وثلاثة الاخرى للاياب مع ممرات للوقوف الاضطراري على الجانبين.
ومن المفيد الاشارة الى ان مشروع المرور السريع رقم (1) صمم على اساس انه يربط الحدود العراقية – السورية والاردنية الى الحدود الكويتية، وكان من المحتمل ان يمتد الى الحدود الايرانية.
" واوضح بان الخطة كانت تتضمن تنفيذ طرق المرور السريع 2،3، 4 لكن الحروب التي دخلها العراق والحصار الذي فرض عليه جراء السياسات الرعناء انذاك كانت قد تسببت في توقف هذه المشاريع الحيوية وتوقف عملية التطوير والعمران وحركة بناء الطرق السريعة.
" وتطرق قاسم الى نقص الكوادر الهندسية التي كانت تعمل في هذه المديرية حيث بلغ عددهم 20 مهندسا بعد ان كانوا 155 مهندسا وذلك بسبب الاحداث مما دفع بالكثير منهم لهجرة البلاد والعمل في دول العالم بكفاءات عالية ونحن اليوم احوج ما نكون الى توفير بيئة جاذبة لعودة هذه الكفاءات وهم الان في المانيا والامارات وماليزيا ويعملون مدراء مشاريع.
" واشار المدير الى ان هناك خطة لصيانة المشروع رقم (1) واعادة الاسيجة الواقية والسلكية والعلامات المرورية." وبين قاسم ان الوزارة حصلت على قرض من البنوك العالمية وبفائدة قليلة وبفترة تسديد طويلة الامد لتاهيل طريق رقم (1) وتنفيذ مشاريع الطرق والجسور، وقد حصلت على مبلغ 145 مليون دولار منها 45 مليون دولار لاقليم كردستان.
" وبشأن سؤال عن المعوقات الفنية ذكر قاسم ان المديرية نبهت مصافي النفط الى ضرورة معالجة العيوب في مادة القير لانها تدخل في صنع مادة الاسفلت والتي تفيد باكساء الطرق لافتا الى اهمية نوعية الاسفلت لان مواد الطريق السريع تحتاج الى مواصفات فنية عالمية فيما لا تتوفر في هذه المادة الا بعد معالجتها فنيا.
" كما قامت الوزارة بانشاء محطات وزن لمعالجة الاحمال الثقيلة المحورية التي تقود الى تشوهات في الشوارع بسبب الحمولات الثقيلة لعدم وجود تحديد للاوزان، مشيرا الى التنسيق مع المرور العامة بهذا الخصوص وتضمين الخطة انشاء ممرات ثانوية للطرق التي تتكون من ممر واحد.
" وخلص المدير لطرق المرور السريع الى القول، هناك تحديات كبيرة تواجه تنفيذ المشاريع ابرزها ما يتعلق بالجانب الامني، والجوانب اللوجستية الاخرى مع التاكيد على ان لا مستحيل امام طموحات الكفاءات العراقية.. والقادم من الايام سيشهد تحولات كبيرة في مجال مشاريع الطرق السريعة.

Karbala
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/53598737.jpg

Urban Expressway in Baghdad
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/1920x1280/33657557.jpg
The covered word says Saddam
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/1920x1280/2630075.jpg
Sign in Airport
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/1920x1280/3312851.jpg
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/1920x1280/13234945.jpg
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/1920x1280/18649562.jpg

Musol-Baghdad (Route #1)
an old photo
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/15863285.jpg
Bayji
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/9399440.jpg
Takrit
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/3567056.jpg
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/1920x1280/163731.jpg
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/71474049.jpg
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/17412010.jpg

A road sign i havent seen before...
ill try to find its location later:
http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1105/1173284931_b8f66d3757_z.jpg?zz=1
West of Baghdad (I know where this is located)
http://static1.bigstockphoto.com/thumbs/8/0/6/large2/60841.jpg
http://afigleaf.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/img_0463-2.jpg?w=720&h=480

Some more road signs
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2368/2185945088_f189ea2c87_z.jpg
By Ciscokid71 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ciscokid71/)
http://sal79.tripod.com/C8sign.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2364/2330200436_0fcb0a8b33.jpg?v=0
http://delta_1_41_inf.tripod.com/images/dco-2-lts.jpg

Some road signs in Iraqi Kurdistan:
http://m8.i.pbase.com/o6/93/329493/1/119748218.KoJI6heo.BAHEBLNov09543.jpg
http://www.leeabbamonte.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/iraq-street-sign-1.bmp
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTLlRwfDBJn6wgOU5jtaWvEVoyEcW74VN7rpczHMXpxHq4rbBbamEUXrYXsRQ
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m64z8voLEX1rrwhlfo1_500.jpg

del

Similiar design and Roman font in Turkey, eh? :D
http://m8.i.pbase.com/o6/93/329493/1/119748218.KoJI6heo.BAHEBLNov09543.jpg

Is it? Their Kurdish writing font is kinda akward. never seen it anywhere else

Is that a trilingual sign?

Yes
English - Arabic (العربية) - Kurdish (کوردی)
Right now there are big debates in Iraq on what language to use on road signs. The government in Baghdad has used Arabic and English only in Kurdish populated Kirkuk region and Kurds don't mostly use Arabic on their signs.

I've seen some of these roads before on a show here in the US called World's Most Dangerous Roads- in the episode they followed a convoy from Baghdad to another place in Iraq- was really interesting to see the various road networks around Iraq in the special.

Great pics and another great thread!!!!

wildthing

How many km of expressways/freeways are in Iraq?
From some sources they are ~2400 km, but on Google Maps about 1268 km.
List of expressways/freeways:
- Freeway 1
- Abu Ghraib Expressway
- Dora Expressway
- Mohamed Al-Qasim Expressway
- Qadisaya Expressway
- Western Bypass
These are all of them?

The number of freeways is not known exactly. There are at least 1270 kilometers of freeways, but there are also a number of 4-lane highways which are usually included in the 2400 km figure. However, most of these roads have traffic lights or at-grade intersections.

The number of freeways is not known exactly. There are at least 1270 kilometers of freeways, but there are also a number of 4-lane highways which are usually included in the 2400 km figure. However, most of these roads have traffic lights or at-grade intersections.

Thanks Chris!

There are plans of Freeway Number 2 from Baghdad to Musol and from there to Turkey and Syria.

Is it a green or a blue?
http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/46397773.jpg
http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/46397964.jpg