African highways

[Skyprince]

If you have highway photos from your country , please post here.


These are Egyptian highway pics ( very few of them ) taken by me during my trip there last year I was on my way south from Cairo to Aswan ( took 20 hours by bus ) . Egypt has very beautiful highways



30 minutes after leaving Cairo. A typical Egyptian highway


We are crossing through the desert


Interesting scenery on the highway 150 km south of Cairo


Cairo Toll gates


While waiting for taxi I saw this signboard.. Nasr City is the place where most of Cairo's elites live...

[Tbite]

This is a great thread. In the past we had a thread for Highways, and I'm glad that this topic has been revived.

Keep the Pictures Coming.

[kulani]

South African highways

Johannesburg (N1 highway)

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N1 highway turns into single carriageway (4 lanes) after about 300 km's from Johannesburg
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N1 towards bloemfontein roughly 150 kilometers away from Johannesburg
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Johannesburg - N12

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A typical interchange/flyover in Joburg

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Durban (N3 highway)

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[kulani]

Cape Town highways

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[kulani]

Looks like the N1 concrete highway is getting a new coat of asphalt. It was announced that this highway will be widened by 1 lane on each side to help alleviate the traffic jam that plagues this highway which joins Pretoria (Capital City) and Johannesburg. Roughly 300,000 cars passes through this highway per day.

The Gautrain rapid rail link project ($3.5 billion project to be completed by 2010) is also meant to help solve this problem.

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[9yja]

great shots!

[madi]

Morocco Casablanca-El jedida

[madi]

Morocco Casablanca-El jedida




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[iluvnaija]

nice shots only one thing missin though.....CAAARS

[9yja]

Obafemi Awolowo university - Road One(ibadan nigeria)
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typical road in lagos
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[Matthias Offodile]

naija, those pics are not Nigerian highways! are you kidding?

Moroccan highways look sleek, but why is nobody driving on them? When were they built?

SA highways are very nice, too! Nice pics, Kulani!

[9yja]

this is for moroccco!

[Mwafrika]

Lovely pix... I wish i could have the highway to myself (like those in Morocco).
Traffic is a complete nightmare here in the UK!!

[kulani]

Madi, great shots of the gorgeous and modern Moroccan highways, most of them look very new. Were they built in the last 10 years? Are there traffic cops on these roads or speed cameras? I think it would be lovely to get my mates and a few BMW M5s on those roads. LOL

[madao]

Originally Posted by kulani

Madi, great shots of the gorgeous and modern Moroccan highways, most of them look very new. Were they built in the last 10 years? Are there traffic cops on these roads or speed cameras? I think it would be lovely to get my mates and a few BMW M5s on those roads. LOL

thank you, yess al these roads are builded last 3 years.
as for the police in morocco, the police uses mostly radars and camera's
when you get caught by the radar they will stop you later on
like we can see on this picture where the highway patrol is busted someone

[Tbite]

Those Moroccan Highways are sweet.

The South African, ones are of course, of the same caliber.

Now that's what I call infrastructure. Well done my Northern, and Southern African Brothers.

[DennisRodman97]

Yo Madi......aint no cars on the highways in morocco......nice highway but no cars wtf.

[kulani]

the traffic on the Pretoria - Johannesburg Ben Schoeman highway can be as bad as this. Its often called the largest parking lot in the Southern Hemisphere.

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and the other parking lot is the N3 to Kempton park

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this is what often happens to those attempting to dodge the Ben Schoeman highway traffic

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that same highway becomes peaceful on Sundays

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[Skyprince]

Wow very nice SOuth African highway pics Kulani and the signboards look so kewl.

Lol the largest parking lot in SOuthern Hemisphere : : but I think Jo'burg and Pretoria's connurbation pop is still below 10 million but wow very nice highways there

Morocco's freeways are very impressive with scenic landscapes in many stretches Very straight and smooth driving. I want to see the highways connecting Casablanca and Rabat

[kulani]

Originally Posted by Skyprince;

Wow very nice SOuth African highway pics Kulani and the signboards look so kewl.

Lol the largest parking lot in SOuthern Hemisphere : : but I think Jo'burg and Pretoria's connurbation pop is still below 10 million but wow very nice highways there

Morocco's freeways are very impressive with scenic landscapes in many stretches Very straight and smooth driving. I want to see the highways connecting Casablanca and Rabat

The stretch between Pretoria and Joburg is roughly 55 kilometers and sees around 320,000 cars pass on it per day. On a bad day during morning/evening peak hours, traffic can be packed like that on the entire highway from Pretoria to Joburg making what should be a 35 minute trip a 3 hour trip!!! This is why the Gautrain Rapid Rail link is being developed to try and solve this problem. The South african national roads agency (SANRAL) announced a week ago that they will spend $3 billion to try and widen this and other highways while connecting other highways to improve the traffic situation before 2010. The only challenge for the rapid rail system will be getting South Africans off their cars which they love very much.

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