Israeli Highways
For some reason it is not easy to find high quality pictures of Israel's highway and road network, but a recently started thread in the Israeli forums prompted me to start one here.
Israel has a developed road network connecting all major towns and cities. A lot of roads are dual carriageways, but most of them are classified as "expressways" and contain at-grade intersections. However, there is a network of motorways that spans the densely populated shoreline.
The network is numbered, with odd numbers representing roads going east-west, and even numbers representing roads going north-south. Road numbers can consist of one, two, three, or four digits. The higher the number of digits, the less significant the road is (and a different colour is used for the number of each of the four categories). Roads that consist of a single digit are generally built to motorway standards, except for some sections that include at-grade intersections but will be upgraded (according to a new plan). The only exception is Highway 20, which is known more commonly by its name, "Ayalon Highway", and despite consisting of two digits it is a motorway in all of its length and is the busiest road in Israel. Also, some three-digit roads (such as the Begin Expressway in Jerusalem) are also dual carriageways.
All highways are free to drive on, except for the newly built (and still under construction) Highway 6, which is an electronic toll road.
I couldn't find a decent map of the road network, so I placed a more general map:
For some reason it is not easy to find high quality pictures of Israel's highway and road network, but a recently started thread in the Israeli forums prompted me to start one here.
Israel has a developed road network connecting all major towns and cities. A lot of roads are dual carriageways, but most of them are classified as "expressways" and contain at-grade intersections. However, there is a network of motorways that spans the densely populated shoreline.
The network is numbered, with odd numbers representing roads going east-west, and even numbers representing roads going north-south. Road numbers can consist of one, two, three, or four digits. The higher the number of digits, the less significant the road is (and a different colour is used for the number of each of the four categories). Roads that consist of a single digit are generally built to motorway standards, except for some sections that include at-grade intersections but will be upgraded (according to a new plan). The only exception is Highway 20, which is known more commonly by its name, "Ayalon Highway", and despite consisting of two digits it is a motorway in all of its length and is the busiest road in Israel. Also, some three-digit roads (such as the Begin Expressway in Jerusalem) are also dual carriageways.
All highways are free to drive on, except for the newly built (and still under construction) Highway 6, which is an electronic toll road.
I couldn't find a decent map of the road network, so I placed a more general map: