Show us your area's highways

[packerfan386 3]

Originally posted by: M1 Sorry to be a pedant, but highway is just a general term meaning 'a road', while motorway or freeway means 'an access controlled road designed for fast traveling traffic'quote>

Thank you for pointing this very, very important fact out. Most people in America (me too) use the   terminology (stated in the quote above). Also just about everybody I know doesn't call a Interstate just "Highway"!

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: M1 Sorry to be a pedant, but highway is just a general term meaning 'a road', while motorway or freeway means 'an access controlled road designed for fast travelling traffic'quote>

Not around here it doesn't. When someone says "highway", it's assumed they mean the limited-access type. Use the word "motorway" and you'll label yourself as British. Use the word "freeway" and you'll label yourself as from the west coast, particularly California. We call full-fledged expressways "highways", and anything less is just a "road". The terms aren't used interchangeably at all.

Of course, that can change if you travel to other parts of the country or out if it.

(I'm speaking Northeastern US/New York Area here).

[packersfan 666]

In the midwest it is either the freeway, highway, or interstate. Depending on where you are and what you're describing determines nomanclature too. I refer to STH 13 as a highway but it is only a 2 lane highway with the yellow lines in the middle. I also refer to US 51 as highway but it is a divided highway or freeway limited access, so it is used interchangeably if it is understood what is being talked about.

[belfastuniguy 18]

Northern Ireland, being a small place does not have a vast motorway network. We do have some, and they are focused around Belfast. Like the UK we have a highly developed road network with much emphasis placed on high quality dual carriageways, many of which are motorway standard. Roads here are either motorways (M), the next most important roads designated (A), then (B) and finally © which are minor roads.

Some pics below, the artistic drawings are of the A12 or Westlink which is currently undergoing massive redevelopment. The picture of the flower sculpture is what will be placed on the redesigned roundabout above the new underpass.

[ExiL3 10]

hmmm.. lol you have highways in Ireland, but where are the cars! hahah

take care,

[belfastuniguy 18]

hmmm.. lol you have highways in Ireland, but where are the cars! hahah

take care,

I wish that were true, some days the traffic on the motorways here is awful, you can see that on the pic above of the motorway crossing the river. Although we do have less traffic congestion on our roads than elsewhere. That's simply becuase we have a lots of other major roads that people use.

[jvlm.123 0]

@ExiL3:

Here's the traffic:

And if that's not bad enough, two days ago (Wednesday, November 22) there was emergency work carried out on the M50 (busiest road in Ireland) and N11 in Dublin which led to delays of four to seven hours!

[get13 0]

Glasgow has a pretty exstensive motorway/freeway network and has the only motorway in the UK that cuts directly through the city centre.

Future Projects (Yellow)

http://www.m74completion.com/

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The merge of the M8 and the M74 is one of the widest motorways in Europe.

The Kingstone bridge is the busiest and widest road bridge in Europe.

An old picture

Under Construction

The aproach to the bridge from the city centre

Another crazy Junction

The widest non-divided part. 5 lanes each way

The M80 splits away from the M8

The M73 ends onto the M74

The M8 and M73

[Wilfried Webber 22]

@sc4portugal:

PORTUGAL HAS GOT THE WORST ROADS IN EUROPEquote>

No, it doesn't. You've never been to Russia or some other eastern European country, I guess.

Actually, I believe that the best roads are French toll freeways because they are in perfect condition over most of their length and have a good visibility through the many reflecting items on either side of the driveway.

I also like German freeways because people there have quite a good driving discipline (they almost always go back to the right lane after passing) and the signs are designed and posted in a meaningful manner like nowhere else. Also, there's no general speed limit what means that people put their whole concentration on actual, fast driving rather than doing anything you see people doing in their cars on roads in the US

[maraniac 2]

In some eastern - European countries the highways are really bad like in Romania, Macedonia and Albania, but in my country (Bulgaria) there are few highways, but they are in very good condition.A month ago was released another part of the Trakia highway which connects one of the biggest cities in Bulgaria - Sofia - Plovdiv - Bourgas.

[p4p3rc1ip 2]

Re Glasgow, the M8 is ugly and incomplete. Have you seen the unbuilt Glasgow Southern Ring Road?

Until a few years ago, Scotland's roads were a joke. The M77 was too short, the M8 and M80 had huge gaps in them, the A800 was a single-carriageway road linking two motorways, and several other minor things. The only "normal" roads are the M876, M898, A823(M), M90 and M9, and the first three are only two miles long!

[hamsterTK 93]

Get13: you know those glasgow motorways look a lot like american freeways in big cities. Really huge and cutting straight through development.

[Uumke 0]

Originally posted by: get13 Glasgow has a pretty exstensive motorway/freeway network and has the only motorway in the UK that cuts directly through the city centre.

The merge of the M8 and the M74 is one of the widest motorways in Europe.

The Kingstone bridge is the busiest and widest road bridge in Europe.

How wide is the merge of the M8 and the M74 ? and the bridge? It seems 16 lane and 10 lanes?

I actually don't know what the widest motorways are in Europe! In Holland we have a merge of 16 lanes, the widest dutch motorway. The widest dutch bridge is 12 lanes.(van Brienenoordbrug,rotterdam.). Here ,in the Netherlands, we have more tunnels around the major cities than bridges.

Does anyone know what's the widest motorway and widest motorway bridge in Europe is?

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[Uumke 0]

This is what I've forgot in my previous post.

The 32 km long Afsluitdijk, Hollands longest dike!

[p4p3rc1ip 2]

Does anyone know what's the widest motorway and widest motorway bridge in Europe is?

The M60/M61/A666 junction west of Manchester is about 18 lanes split accross several carriageways.

[Bart_Betrwrld 0]

this monster is just southeast of rotterdam:

[mpk1000000 2]

I would like to add a couple of danish "motorways"(of course it's not real motorways cuz Denmark has only 5,3 million inhabitants).

This is one from århus(second largest city in Dk after København or in english Copenhagen):

[get13 0]

Does anyone know what's the widest motorway and widest motorway bridge in Europe is?quote>

The Kingston Bridge where he M8 crosses the River Clyde in Glasgow is one of the widest  bridges in Europe at 10 lanes across. It now carries about 5x the amount of traffic it was built to carry. It's also one of the busiest in Europe.

Just before the M77 and M8 merge the motorway is 16 lanes (including shoulders)

When the M77 merges with the M8 it is a massive 18 lanes:

[Mizari 23]

Originally posted by: mpk1000000 I would like to add a couple of danish "motorways"(of course it's not real motorways cuz Denmark has only 5,3 million inhabitants).

This is one from århus(second largest city in Dk after København or in english Copenhagen):

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They're as much motorways as any German motorway (Autobahn) or whatever. Motorway/Freeway/Expressway.

[Wilfried Webber 22]

Yeah! Even Poland has motorways ... Believe me I tell you!!

BTW, to all Poles: Highway = trasa, motorway/freeway = autostrada

A highway in general is nothing else than what you refer to as "trasa" - a main throughfare. A motorway, or freeway, is what in Poland is called autostrada.

So Poland actually HAS a lot of highways but almost no motorways/freeways ("motorway" is British English, "freeway" is American English for just the same type of road).

[Superchan 23]

nice, i could use this thread to get ideas for highway systems.

[montrouge 2]

The tallest bridge in the world is a motorway

Millau Viaduct    France

[AcE-cOdEr 1]

@montrouge: did Norman Foster design that bridge?

[WC_EEND 9]

This is a pic of The Kennedytunnel it's situated near Antwerp, Belgium and it has a lot of car crashes each day.

[montrouge 2]

Originally posted by: AcE-cOdEr @montrouge: did Norman Foster design that bridge?quote>

 

Yes it is Norman Foster

[p4p3rc1ip 2]

If we're counting shoulders...

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=53.531814~-2.381051&style=a&lvl=17&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000

The road here is a massive 25 lanes wide.

[Uumke 0]

here in order to make it actual again, a post.

[Deathamphetimine 2]

Too bad this thred is like dead. I never got a chance to post the new I-4 viaduct in Tampa or the Reversable lanes of the Crosstown.

[Uumke 0]

well, you can make it alive again this is an solid-old thread of this forum

[Deathamphetimine 2]

Well, I couldn't find any of the new I-4 viaduct, but here are some of I-275 at Malfunction Junction

This is the interchange itself

This is I-75 @ I-4

Thats about all the good pics I could find. Our Interstates around here are not terrably impressive, here is some from Pinellas Co