Show us your area's highways

[wallasey 8]

Originally posted by: Duke87 I'm bored, so here's my "Analysis of national highway systems", listed in order from best to worst.

(note, by "highway", I mean "limited access highway" (generally assumed where I'm from), so the US routes are not included here):

The UK: Motorways

    A sizable network of highways that is quite deficient in a few key areas. First, a few older ones are quite poorly designed and haven't been improved. Second, there isn't a large ammount of milage to the system. Most of it is within England with Wales and Scotland getting skimped out. Third, none of them go anywhere near any major city centers. From downtown London, one has several miles along various city streets to navigate before they can find the nearest motorway entrance. There isn't even a straight avenue or boulevard to be had, part of Paris' saving grace.quote>

A "pothole" seems to appeared here!

So, I will take us deeper into the wonders of the UK Motorway system. However, i will comment on Duke87's description. Please note that I am not in anyway knocking what you have said but I think that there are a few things missed out!

So...

Third, none of them go anywhere near any major city centers.quote>

Major Cities...

Birmingham--> The M5, M6 pass by the CBD but the A38(M) or the Aston Expressway links both the City Centre and the M6 together with the Spaghetti Junction being the main focal point of the whole affair!

Manchester--> The M62/M60 goes around the Manchester/Salford conurbation but the M602 and the A57(M) runs straight into and around Manchester City Centre.

Bristol--> The M4/M5 runs past the city but the M32 links both the CBD and the M4 together

Newcastle Upon Tyne--> The A167(M) runs straight through the CBD. However, it isn't connected to the motorway network.

Leeds--> The M62 bypasses the City but the M621 runs into the city and then the A58(M) runs straight though the CBD.

Glasgow--> The M8 cuts the city in two!

Southampton--> The M271 gets into the City Proper but admittedly it doesn't reach the CBD

Portsmouth--> The M275 does the same as the M271 (Maybe Ill Tonkso or a local could claify this?)

London--> The CBD doesn't boast any M'ways now as "Transport for London" took over operations in the capital. They wern't given powers to operate Motorways and so the A40(M),

A41(M) and the A102(M) were de-classified to Trunk Roads. For more info click here  . The City of London (Thats the area around St Pauls Cathedral) was going to have wide boulivards after the Great Fire of London. however, these plans were rejected by the city leaders of that time.

To finish here, and not to be rude or anything, but We cant all be like the US and have huge swathes of concret cutting through every single CBD in the country. The systems that we have inplace do the job they were meant  to do. By modern standards, they might need some updating but to be honest, we aren't fussed.

So, that's a rundown of  what is the current situation for or urban areas!

older ones are quite poorly designed quote>

This is because the older ones (e.g M50) were the first of their kind. The designers were new to this kind of road design and so, some bad junctions were built. However, the Preston Bypass (the UK's First Motorway) was built so that the motorway could be widened at a leter date. The motorway here has been widened twice and it is now four lanes north and south.

deficient in a few key areasquote>

Well, I don't know about that! we do experiance gridlock, but doesn't anywhere else? The motorways in the UK connect major urban areas to either other urban areas of the Holiday Destinations. That is what they do! OK, Wales only has the M4 in the South but North Wales is served by the A55 which is of Motorway Standard. Scotland is connected to England by the M74 only but other Trunk Roads do the job too! Take the A1 for example.

Could you please detail the Key Areas?

Now, heres a list of the main M'ways in the country...

M1--> London (Staples Corner) to A1 (West of Leeds, Yorkshire)

It passes--> Milton Keynes, Northampton, Leciester, Nottingham, Sheffield and Leeds

It Meets--> M25 (London Orbital), M6 (see below), the M45, the M69, the M18, and the M62

M1 J25

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M4--> London to North of Swansea (South Wales)

It Passes--> Heathrow Airport, Reading, Swindon, Bristol, Severn Crossing, Newport, Cardiff, Swansea. Terminates on the A48.

It Meets--> M25, A404(M), A329(M), M32, M5, M48 (twice), M49, A48 (M) for Cardiff, 

(M4 at Newport, South Wales) This stretch is meant to be bypassed by the M4 TOLL soon.

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M5--> Birmingham (M6) to Exeter

It Passes--> Wocester, Gloucester, Bristol, Taunton and Exeter

It Meets--> M42, M50, M4, M49

M5

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M6--> M1/A14 to Carlisle

It Passes--> Coventry, Brimingham, Walsall, Stafford, Stoke on Trent, Warrington, Preston (the Bypass here was the first stretch of Mway to be built in the UK), Lancaster, The Lake District and Carlisle

It Meets--> M69, M42, M6 TOLL (alternative to going through Brum'), A38(M), M5, M54, M56, M62, M58, M65, M61, M55 and soon the A74(M) which runs from Gretna to Glasgow.

M6 in the Lune Gorge, Cumbria

M6 around Wigan, Lancashire

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M8--> Edinburgh to West of Glasgow

It Passes--> Bathgate, Glasgow

It Meets--> M9, M73, M80, M77 and the M898

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M62 (Local for me) Liverpool to West of Hull

It Passes--> Warrington <Becomes M60 around North Manchester>, Rochdale,  Halifax, Bradford (Well Almost!), and South Leeds

It Meets--> M6 (at Warrington), M60, A627(M) M606, M621, M1, terminates on the A63 and runs into Hull.

M62 between Manchester and Leeds

The Farmhouse in the Central Reservation of the M62 between Leeds and Manchester

Obviously, there are more Motorways in our country than these but I have restricted things down. It is interesting to note that the UK Mway network was mainly built between 1960 and 1980. Many plans and motorways weren't fully built and so there are a few white elephants. Take the

M67, its the only motorway in the country that only had one of the middle stretches built!

For more information about the UK Motorway network, I reccomend the following links

* Pathetic Motorways

*CBRD

*Motorway Archive

*SABRE

Many thanks for reading!

[ost2life 0]

Portsmouth--> The M275 does the same as the M271 (Maybe Ill Tonkso or a local could claify this?)quote>

Actually, the M275 heads down the western edge of Portsea Island (that is Portsmouth proper) and officially ends about 500m from the city center, coupled with this, the 275 is one of the main access routes for the PPA Ferry Port which serves France, Spain and the channel islands.

The biggest problem with the M275 is that it's one of only 3 roads into Portsea Island (JFI: Portsmouth is the only city in the UK on an island) and as such it's subject to heavy congestion, a situation which is further exhasberated is there's a crash or some other block on either the A2030 (Eastern Road) or the Northern Parade.

The whole road netword in Portsmouth is shite really as the A27 (M27 lite) which runs E-W along the northern edge of Portsea Island is outdated and severely over subscribed at the moment, the Southamton Road is an embarrasement and bloody dangerous and as stated, the three access roads into portsmouth just don't hack it any more.

The city and country councils have been toying with LRT or tram access in the city for YEARS not to mention the bi-annual mention of Park & Ride but since the council is in a state of permenant flux nothing ever gets close to being done..any ways that's a whole other mess of crap.

[hamsterTK 93]

you know, ive noticed something about UK motorways in particular...there are lots and lots and lots of streetlights

[wallasey 8]

Ostlife 2--> Thanks for filling in that pothole! I have seen the M275 on Pathetic Mways but I wasn't all too sure bout how close to the CBD it comes!

you know, ive noticed something about UK motorways in particular...there are lots and lots and lots of streetlightsquote>

Well, the M6 is lit from the M55 junction all to way to the M56 and then in patches up to Birmingham. The M62 is lit from just before the M60 junction and then all the way over to just after the M1.

We do like our motorways to be lit but apparently, the Highways Agency only have mways lit when there is a likelyhood of a accident to happen or if the mway runs through a urban area. To be honest, The M6 should be lit all the way from Preston to Birmingham as the stretch from the M56 into Bham is over used and the glare from the headlights at night can be terrible! This might be why the M62 was lit over the moors.

[diablo_del_bano 3]

There are some beautiful American Highways. Most of them are in the southeast Hill areas, such as Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, West Virginia, Pensylvania and even near me. The dividers on I-20 become quite large between Jackson and Birmingham with trees in the middle. The same thing happens on the I-80 Tollway in Pensylvania, I-40 in Tennessee and North Carolina (It's absloutely beautiful when it goes through the Great Smokey Mountains). I-20/59 is kinda interesting near me. Part of it is double level because there isn't any room near it. They are even talking about making it a business loop so they can make it 6 lanes:

Edit: also, the reason the interstates are so straight forward is that they were made for the millitary. When the Army was in WWII in Germany, they really liked the Autobahn for transporting goods, troops and equipment.

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: wallasey

Could you please detail the Key Areas?

quote>

-London in its entirety. No motorways anywhere near downtown, which for a major world city today is quite a glaring deficiency. Were there a few highways into or through London, the UK motorway system would be considerably higher on the list.

-lack of coverage. As i said, almost none in Scotland and not very many in Wales. There are also lots of considerably sized towns and tourist destinations not near any motorways (e.g. Salisbury and Stonehenge). Britain is not that big, this wouldn't be hard to fix.

-those older motorways I mentioned that are design deficient have all been left that way, and not improved.

-poor numbering of routes. The numbering pattern? There is none. They're just given numbers, "Mxx". Worse, when an existing route is upgraded into the system, it doesn't even get properly numbered. It just gets an (M) stuck after its old number on the motorway portion. When Illinois and Wisconsin upgraded part of US 51 to an interstate, it did not become "US 51 (I)". It became I-39.

-poor numbering of exits. Yeah, they are numbered, but they are done so sequentially (ick), and most of the time the signs on the motorways themselves don't list the numbers. They just sign the destination.

Also note that I have been nice and not docked points for left hand driving, which I probably should have (and thus brought Japan, India, and South Africa down as well).

[Glenni 1,447]

Lol Norway does just have 600km of motorway,lol that is seriously just pathetic

And we do need more,either that or extend the rail network.

[tydev417 0]

Nobody else here is from New York City? There's way too many local highways to list but I'll list the major ones, I live in Staten Island so I'll center it from there.

Staten Island Expressway (I-278)

Runs from the Verrazono Narrows Bridge to the Gothaels linking Brooklyn to New Jersey via Staten Island and the Verrazono-Narrows Bridge

The Dreaded Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (I-278)

Much of this highway was built in a very cluttered formation in the lower portion of Brooklyn and also runs on a dilapated viaduct through much of Red Hook, Brooklyn. This highway is prone to traffic at anytime of the day because it's a truck route and also a key link into Manhattan from outer-boroughs.

The highway as it squeezes under the Brooklyn Bridge.

Underneath the BQE viaduct in Brooklyn.

New Jersey Turnpike (I-95)

This monster of a highway, up to 12 lanes, local (trucks, buses, cars) and express (cars only), runs from the tip of the George Washinton Bridge down to the very Southern tip of Jersey before crossing over to Delaware, where by that time it is only 4 lanes. It also has a few extensions around the Bayonne and Newark area.

Just outside the George Washington Bridge to New York City.

Belt Parkway

Slow, sucky, traffic prone, 3-lane highway that starts in Queens and ends at the Gowanus Expressway (BQE).

Long Island Expressway (I-495)

................it connects Long Island and Queens with Manhattan via the Queens-Midtown Tunnel but I'll let the pictures tell the rest.

West Side Highway (NY9A)

One of my favorite expressways, Although not really a highway, it runs the entire lengthof Manhattan and as just rebuilt back in 2002.

West Shore Expressway (440)

Nothing much, just a highway from the Outerbridge Crossing connecting to the Staten Island Expressway. For the much of the day, traffic is like as seen in the pictures but during rush hours, that highway can be a nighmare with only 2 lanes.

[K1A 0]

all i know is that the 15 through the mojave desert sux!!!

[wallasey 8]

Originally posted by: Duke87

Originally posted by: wallasey

Could you please detail the Key Areas?

quote>

-London in its entirety. No motorways anywhere near downtown, which for a major world city today is quite a glaring deficiency. Were there a few highways into or through London, the UK motorway system would be considerably higher on the list.

-lack of coverage. As i said, almost none in Scotland and not very many in Wales. There are also lots of considerably sized towns and tourist destinations not near any motorways (e.g. Salisbury and Stonehenge). Britain is not that big, this wouldn't be hard to fix.

-those older motorways I mentioned that are design deficient have all been left that way, and not improved.

-poor numbering of routes. The numbering pattern? There is none. They're just given numbers, "Mxx". Worse, when an existing route is upgraded into the system, it doesn't even get properly numbered. It just gets an (M) stuck after its old number on the motorway portion. When Illinois and Wisconsin upgraded part of US 51 to an interstate, it did not become "US 51 (I)". It became I-39.

-poor numbering of exits. Yeah, they are numbered, but they are done so sequentially (ick), and most of the time the signs on the motorways themselves don't list the numbers. They just sign the destination.

Also note that I have been nice and not docked points for left hand driving, which I probably should have (and thus brought Japan, India, and South Africa down as well).quote>

Fair Comments. however...

--> The 1970's brought about a depression in the UK. Motorway plans were either put on hold indefinatly (some were either never built or left incomplete e.g M67). London has had central motorway plans since at least the 1930's but all those dreams ended in 1985 when the M25 was completed. The Department of Transport decided that London had no need for destructive motorways through the capital.

For more information on the Ringways, click here. The Ringway programme was Londons motorway plan. Great read!

--> Scotland and Wales. I can see what you mean. However, North and South Wales have something called the Snowdonia Mountain Range and Also the Brecon Beacons. both of which are difficiult terrain for a high quality motorway and both of which are National Parks. Besides which, Those in North Wales tend to look toward Liverpool and Manchester rather than Cardiff. There is no demand!

Up in Scotland, the main areas of high population are served be a motorway. Once again, a motorway isnt really needed north of Glasgow and Perth as there is such a sparse Population. Aberdeen is conected to the Motorway network by the A90. This Trunk Road is a 2 lane (each way) dule carrageway and does the job well. you may have heard of the Highlands, The Caingorms and the Grampians. Well, these mountians are another big barrier for motorway building too. Besides which, nobody lives there and many tourists prefer to wind their way round the scenery rather than zooming through.

--> Most of the older motorways dont go anywhere and they dont carry any traffic! The M50 is one of the oldest in the country and carries very little traffic. However, it is a great link into South Wales and the A40.

However, the M1 was one of the first motorways (click here for construction photos from 1959)  to be built and it has changed and adapted to the current demands. The M6 Preston Bypass was only two lane each way, and now its four lane each way! It all depends where you look!

--> Numbering. Well, for those who aren't familiar to our way of operating, the UK system can be complicated. However, I think this page will provide all the answers! But to be honest, I can understand some of the USA's highways. For example, you have both Interstates and Highways! What is the difference and how do you number them?

Don't forget, we have high quality Dule Carrageways that do the same job as motorways do! Look at the A580 which was the UK's (if not the worlds) first purpose built inter city road. It was Dulled in the 60's but was built in 1934. The A1 runs from London to Edinburgh and is being converted to Motorway Standard from Doncaster to Scotch Corner. Stonehenge is beside the A303 which is the main link from the M3 to the M5 without having to use the M4.

Just while I am here, Could I just point out that North Western England has the highest concernatration of motorways in the country. Why? Well it's simeple. Before 1974, Liverpool and Manchester were in Lancashire, the home of the Preston Bypass. Lancashire County Council were motorway mad back then and they built one where ever possible! This page on the Lancashire County Council Website details all of this!

--> Exits. Take a look at the bottom left hand corner. There should be a black box with a number in it...

Images from here

See!

Finally, I think it's great that we drive on the "Correct" side of the road! It' means that not all networks are the same and it can even add some amusement for some. But thats taking it a bit too far! 

[thesonofgray 0]

Nice highways everyone!

Since I'm bored and to shine some more light on Houston freeways, I give you the photo tour titled: Proof that Highways are a Way of Life in Houston.

All of the photos here were taken from HoustonFreeways.com.

[tydev417 0]

Those UK Motorway networks sound soo confusing, I love the very simple system they us out here, Interstates, Intrastates even though they're classed under Interstates, State Roads, State Parkways, and County Roads (although it could be more).

Here's some more shots of NYC Highways

Queens-Midtown Tunnel heading towards Manhattan under the East River from the Long Island Expressway

FDR Drive looking towards Midtown Manhattan

FDR Drive in Lower Manhattan passing under the Brooklyn Bridge

FDR Drive in Midtown

I remember that! The MTA Transit Strike..I had to walk to school everyday.

Grand Central Parkway

Grand Central Parkway by Laguardia Airport

Looking down at the Van Wyck Expressway from the Airtrain up above, just outside JFK Airport

Short section of I-95 in Manhattan

[KyNYC 16]

thesonofgray: phenomenol pics of houston! thx! would love to have that kind of system in my cities!

[Micah 16]

Wow!!!! Dude!! You found my highway (interstate)!!! Even my school is in this picture and my house is just to the left of this picture. This picture is outdated though... much of that forest is gone and is now built up areas!

Can you believe that skyscraper can see Houston even though how far away it is?!?!

AHH!!! I see the store I visit a lot at the bottom of this picture! Golfsmith! haha!

[Duke87 1,070]

And now for some pictures I took myself.

April 11th, 2006:

New Jersey Turnpike Western Spur (I-95) Southbound Near Exit 15W

New Jersey Turnpike Extension (I-78) Eastbound Approaching the Newark Bay Bridge

Going onto the main span of the bridge

Looking towards Manhattan from the same spot

A Bit further east, with Lower Manhattan directly ahead

Looking back at the Pulaski Skyway (US1/US9) from the New Jersey Turnpike Eastern Spur (I-95) Northbound

Traffic on I-95 Northbound about 4 miles before the George Washington bridge

About a mile later, the traffic is explained

Sign on the Fletcher Avenue Overpass in Fort Lee, NJ, right before the bridge

May 6th, 2006:

Onramp onto the Henry Hudson Parkway Southbound from Fieldston Road in The Bronx

Looking down the street from the same spot

Something written on the back of the sign in the last pic

Looking south along the Henry Hudson Parkway from the Fieldston Road Overpass

Looking north from the same overpass

Northbound onramp/offramp a bit further south along the highway

Looking directly at the highway down said onramp

Looking north along the highway from the end of the sidewalk in the middle of that ramp pair

Looking north from the same spot

Apparently someone didn't quite make the curve (It is a pretty tight curve)

Looking northward toward that exit from the nearby Riverdale Avenue Overpass

Looking south from that same overpass (zomg construction!)

Looking south from the West 252nd Street overpass (the under construction one)

Along the southbound service road by West 249th Street

Looking north up the West 246th Street Exit Ramp

Looking south from right on the other side of said ramp

Looking north from the West 246th Street Overpass

Looking south from the same overpass

Looking South From The Manhattan College

[hamsterTK 93]

i was looking at some japanese freeway pics, and they are pretty crazy. They dont seem to be the really the big wide things that you can go really fast on like in other countries, but they really manage to get right into the urban core without disturbing the buildings. Those japanese civil engineers are pretty darn creative...

A freeway through a building? Dont see that one everyday? PS: why is nobody driving on it?

Here's a cool one. Wonder how they built it without disturbing those buildings which look older than the freeway...:

I only wish you could do this in simcity:

[Mizari 23]

The expressway through the building is somewhere in central Osaka IIRC. The expressways are often narrow and feature rather tight bends due to the space constraints in Japan.

The traffic is often rather light due to absurdly high tolls, but traffic in the metropolitan areas of the major cities can usually be pretty heavy.

[tomdapom 79]

Hmm... Highways... Well where I live the main Highway for the whole country is 1 lane. Nuff said.

Wait we do have a highway in Christchurch... but its only two lanes... and runs for about 4km... (sigh)

[hamsterTK 93]

so, if tolls are super high, its obviously not doing anything about congestion.... Do you know if that tower was built before or after the freeway was built. I would think it was built after or at the same time, since i cant seem them actually going and taking out floors and running a highway through a building.

[SystemUK 0]

As i said, almost none in Scotland

There are plenty of motroways. About 4/5 of the population is in the Central Belt and that is where most of the motorway is. The only other motorways are the one heading o England and the one to Perth. They may not be motorways but there are plenty of main roads around Scotland to population centres that are of motorway standard but just don't have the hard shoulder to be classified as motorway. This picture should help.

Not bad for a country of only 5 million.

I've travelled on almost all of these roads and with the exception of a few, they are all well laid out and easy to travel on.

[thesonofgray 0]

Micah, that's 45 north right?  I'm usually never up there but I would guess that in 10 years none of those trees will be there.   Cool HOV on/off ramp though.  You usually have to pass through normal traffic to get the the HOV lane in other freeways.

I avoided showing pics of I-10 west (where I live) since most of the pics are outdated (with the Katy Freeway expansion and all).  I'd really like a bird's eye view of the progress, though.

EDIT:  Found some!

This is a mix of new I-10 (left lanes) and old I-10 (right lanes).  Notice how both are being utilized and the overpass is still in operation while construction goes on.  All of that area will be converted to a massive new freeway soon.

Another image, new on right, old on left and new being constructed in the middle.  One big river of concrete...

Old Beltway 8 / I-10 interchange with new pavement slicing right through it.  According to the caption, traffic was diverted to the new lanes in March.

I-10 / Blalock intersection.  Old on left, new on right.  Keep in mind traffic is kept flowing almost continuously during the whole construction process!  Amazing...

This is a good image that shows the massiveness of the soon-to-be new I-10.  The black left plus the white right and everything in the middle will be lanes of the new freeway.

And lastly, the tranformation of the old I-10 / 610 interchange into the new.  Again, traffic is kept flowing though this mess.  Otherwise west Houston would literally shut down.

Demolition!

Ok, I've bored ya'll enough.  Luckily for me, in a few more years I'll be designing these behemoths for a living!

All photos taken from www.katyfreeway.org.

[1ajs 49]

winnipeg

[Tickford 0]

Thought I'd give my hometown Melbourne some support so here's some pics.Enjoy.

1) Western Ring Road

2) Hallam Bypass

3) City Link: Heading West to the Domain tunnel

4) Inside the Domain Tunnel

5) Heading into the domain tunnel

6) Monash Freeway

7) West Gate Freeway: In background is the West Gate Bridge

West Gate Freeway: In background part of Melbourne City

[the_reb 1]

in the Quebec Province, the highways looks like this:

this is the Highway 20 (a part of the Transcanadian highway):

the highway 40

the 30:

the 73:

the Pont de Quebec Bridge:

the 138:

and finally the 175:

[Asimov 0]

Some pictures from the Home of the Freeway, Germany:

The Bridge across the Kocher-Valley near Geislingen (A6)

The A93 near Oberaudorf

The Interchange between A4 and A7 near Kirchheim, the large Bridge in the Background is a Highspeed Railwayline

The A9 near Munich

Expansion of the A4 near Altenberg

The A1 near the Interchange with the A20 near Lübeck (only 10 km from my place)

The A46 in Wuppertal

The Tunnel under the river Elbe in Hamburg, one of the largest Freeway tunnels in Germany

Interchange between A3 and A4 near Cologne

Interchange between A4 and A9 near Hermsdorf

The A12 at the Border to Poland, crsossing the river Oder

The bridge across the River Werra near Kassel (A7). A friend and I spend some time in a traffic jam before that bridge a couple of weeks ago, 'cause a car caught fire on the bridge. Parallel to the Freeway runs a highspeed Railway-Line.

A5 near Bad Homburg

The Inerchange between thr A100 and the A113 in Berlin

The Interchange between the A3 and A81 near Würzburg

Bridge across the Seidewitz-valley near Dresden (A17)

Bridge across the Elbe in Hamburg (A255)

[jupitercrisis 1]

Man, it's nice to see Houston get some love. Yeah, it's radial/compass based, but man. LOOK AT IT! that shot of SH-59 is AWESOME. what a freeway! Corridor I-69 my butt. Houston PWNS 59.

288 is so pretty, too. It's so clean and nice and new and happy.

[Micah 16]

Thesonofgray: I feel so sorry for you. You live on one of the worst highways in the country! haha. I hope it gets finished soon.

[sdy284 0]

Here is a picture of the old Marquette interchange in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

and here is a rendering of what the interchange will look like upon completion in 2008

and here is the Official picture gallery of the interchange (mostly of contruction/demolition)

http://www.mchange.org/page.jsp?&key=pab

[JoeMeister 1]

Intersections near Rotterdam the Netherlands.

"Knooppunt Vaanplein", south of Rotterdam, connecting the A15 ( east / west ) with the A29

Picture from: Beeldbank V&W; 1997

"Knooppunt Ridderkerk", this is where the A15 and the A16 form a 16 lane-wide highway to the south.

Picture from : Beeldbank V&W; 1999

Three levels of fly-overs at the "knooppunt Ridderkerk".

Picture from : Beeldbank V&W; 1999

Knooppunt "Gorinchem", near Gorinchem. Connecting the A15 and the A27.

Picture from: Beeldbank V&W; 1999

"Knooppunt Kleinpolderplein", North of Rotterdam connecting the A13 and the A20

Picture from: Beeldbank V&W; 1992

Other important intersections:

"Knooppunt Deil".Connecting the A2 with the A15, south of the town Deil in the center of the Netherlands.

Picture from: Beeldbank V&W; 2004

"Het Prins Claus Plein", near The Hague, connecting the A4 with the A12

Picture from: Beeldbank V&W; 1997

"Knooppunt Ouderein", near Utrecht connecting the A12 and the A2

Picture from: Beeldbank V&W; 1997

"Knooppunt Lunetten", near Utrecht connecting the A12 with the A27

Picture from: Beeldbank V&W; 1997

And last, not an intersection, but a 30 km straight piece of highway  across the "Afsluitdijk". Built in 1932 to close the IJsselmeer from the Waddensea and the Northsea. The A7 connects the province of North Holland with the province Fryslan!

Picture from: wikipedia; 1987

A sattelite image of the Higway on top of the Afsluitdijk.

[ProudElm 0]

viva la dutch!!

here's a nice interchange not far from me,  "knooppunt Velperbroek" near Arnhem.

(http://https://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/apps/beeldbankvenw/)

a bit old foto, much of it around has now been build on..