Show us your country's/region's Highways, Motorways, Freeways, etc.

[Haljackey 17,380]

    Hey everyone, This is yet another "show us your..." topic that lets the diverse group from Simtropolis look at road networks from where you live.  Here we can view different styles of highways from many different countries/regions and compare to one another. 

    Please do not flood this thread with too many pictures.  Post as much as you need to to show off your country's highway networks, but don't go too overboard to keep this thread from being slow to refresh. Lets try to make the limit 5 pictures per post.

    Anyways I will start with the highway networks around me, called the 400-series highways, from the province of  Ontario, Canada.  These highways have been voted the safest highways in North America for several years in a row, due to their upkeep and safety features (such as having a paved shoulder on both the right and left side of the roadbed and high mast lighting).  They also have very high design standards, such as preventing weaving.  This makes the cloverleaf interchange in SC4 not up to the standards of these highways.

Here are some photos:

This is highway 400.  Its well maintained and can carry large traffic flows safely.

This is Highway 401, the busiest highway in the world and the widest in Canada. Click here for full resolution! (768X1024 Px)

This is Highway 403.  The inside lanes are HOV lanes.  The stripped buffer zone on the right does not allow for lane changes, however, the broken white line on the left side means merging is possible.

This is Highway 407, the world's first electronic toll road. It is also the only concrete highway in Ontario.  In the photo, its grass median is being converted into an additional lane or possibly a HOV lane per direction.  Click here for full resolution! (1440X1080 Px)

This is the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW), the first superhighway in Canada and one of the world's first (built at the same time as the first German autobahns).  Click here for full resolution! (1280X960 Px)

Now, show us your country's/region's highways!

[Micah 16]

Please change the title to a more appropriate length.

[granto93 4]

ok than....

here are some pics of highways in my hometown of St.John's NL. its the best i could find on google. i'll take some of my own later

the Trans Canada Highway Route 1, 20 kilometres outside of St.Johns

this would be a nice pic of the T.C.H in the east end of St.John's if the random guy wasn't standing there

o my gosh, the car is going the wrong way lol

[GreekMan 246]

traffic in Toronto is a mess!

[Wolf_pt 7]

Portugal

A5-Lisbon

2

[granto93 4]

you have mc donalds in lisbon?!? AWSOME

[Haljackey 17,380]

Wolf_pt, Some nice shots there! I like that colourful second photo!  But, please resize your images to 800X600 px or less, and provide a link to view the larger images (see my first post for an example).

And granto93, Micky-D's is everywhere! It has taken over the world!

[Wolf_pt 7]

@granto93-In Lisbon we have more than 7 McDonald's,lol 

@haljackey-Ok ok

[shinkansen1 84]

I misread it and thought it said lesbian. Oops!

[siso43 13]

cool picters

[Uumke 0]

people, there is already such a thread in the forum, show us your highways. I'll post there right now in order to make it actual again.

anayway, nice pics!

[Haljackey 17,380]

Uumke: I forgot about that old, dead thread. However, it might be better to merge the new contents of that thread here because the moderators don't like revived threads.  They die over time.

[jarrod321 0]

Here are some from Melbourne australia, its the westgaate freeway. And yes we drive on the left hand side! lol

click on the images for a alot bigger view (takes 1 sec to load it up)

[jarrod321 0]

melbourne citylink freeway, its electronicly tolled. (clock on images for a way larger size (takes 1 sec to load up))

[jarrod321 0]

gee there huge freeways!!!!!!!!!

[Again, please use the edit button. Just like I did. ] Marc

[Haljackey 17,380]

Nice pictures from Melbourne, jarrod321. But please edit your posts together and hit the DELETE button to get rid of your other posts, thanks!

[montrouge 2]

Paris

Some motorways of Paris

A6 motorway

Peripherique freeway (Inner paris beltway)

A3 motorway

 A14 motorway

A4 motorway

[vilbe 6]

Interstate 95 at the begining of Interstate 395. 395 is the way of the old connecticut turnpike, most of 95, as well as parts of 395 are not up to present day interstate standards. oh its the one of the busiest highways..

95 northbound [well your really going east, and slightly north] at this point 4 lanes, about to turn into a 6 lane bridge. "frontage" roads parrellel the highway at this point.

The Merrit Parkway, CT Route 15. a pleasent scenic route parrellel to Interstate-95 from New Haven until Yonkers, NY. built in the 30's, known for low bridges, no shoulders, abrupt exits, and fast entries.

[Haljackey 17,380]

vilbe, that last pic is cool, seeing its older design standard! The sign in the first pic looks confusing though because its a left exit!

[Duke87 1,070]

Ah, another Connecticutter!

Well, I'm gonna have to offer a few corrections and additional info on the Merritt Parkway. Firstoff, the south end is not in Yonkers (the hutch doesn't even enter Yonkers), it's in The Bronx. The Highway continues south from there into Queens all th way to JFK Airport, but south of it's interchange with I-95, I-295, and I-278, it's no longer a parkway and is I-678. The exit numbers start over for the parkway, though. And upon entering Connecticut, unlike normal, the exit numbers actually don't start over, but instead drop back 3. They originally were continuous (the highway was built before the convention of starting numbers over at state lines existed), but New York later renumbered their exits a bit for some reason. Several anomalies exist. Exits 8 and 9 are essentially the same exit, but it's exit 8 southbound and exit 9 northbound. There is no exit 11. There's also no Exit 21. And the Exit for I-684 has no number, and is between Exits 26E-W and 27.

Reach the state line, and you have an interchange with NY 120A, which is an 8 ramp exit that functions sort of like a cloverleaf, but nevertheless left turns onto and off of the other ramps are always possible, except from the ramps in the northeast quadrant, where barrels were put in place preventing these movements. I suspect this situation exists since both states built an exit for the road (which is dead on the state line at this point), neither yielding to the other. The numbering of the exit is even crazier, though. It used to simply be that the New York exit was exit 30 (thouh southbound it wasn't signed), and the Connecticut exit was exit 27. Bit after this part of the hutch was reconstructed, and new signs were installed on the Merritt, the situation got more complicated. Northbound signs on the hutch now sign their exit as Exit 30S, whereas the Connecticut one is still exit 27. Connecticut has signs posted for Exits 27N-S, and they sign their exit as Exit 27N. New York also has a (regular, not Merritt style) gore sign for exit 27S southbound. But the craziest part is this: for a while, there was actually a New York sign for exit 27N, placed directly in front of the Connecticut one, in Connecticut. My guess here is that someone at NYSDOT made a mistake and ordered that sign even though they didn't need it, and the contractor in charge of the installation went and installed it anyway even though it was unnecessary and in the wrong state. It stayed there for a few months before being removed. Someone at CONNDOT must have gotten wind of it and gone and plucked it out.

Continuing north on the Merritt (CT 15), one finds that there is no exit 30. The story here is that "exit 30" was originally an at grade intersection with Butternut Hollow road, directly west of Exit 31, an actual exit. The intersection was later removed for safety reasons, and said street now dead ends on either side of the highway.

There's also no exit 32. This number was supposed to be for an interchange with Stanwich Road which was never built. The interchange with the new Highway US 7 actually doesn't cause a numbering anomaly. It's exits 39A-B, whereas the small cloverleaf with the old rout 7 directly to the east is exits 40A-B. The A-B convention didn't exist at the time, so the old interchange used to be exits 39 and 40 (this type of situation still exists on I-84 with CT 8, where it's exits 19 and 20). There is no exit 43. This number was reserved for a highway connector south to Sherwood Island State Park which was never completely built. A small vestigial of it exits between US 1 and I-95, though, with 1 intersection, an overpass, and a 5 ramp interchange with I-95.

Exit 45 no longer exists due to the downgrading of an old cloverleaf to a diamond interchange. It was Exits 44 and 45, now it's just exit 44. For whatever reason, there originally was no exit 49, but the interchange with the CT 25 expressway now uses the number. the interchange with CT 8 is exit 52. That number used to be used along with exit 53 in what used to be a 7-ramp cloverleaf but now has been reduced to 5, the extra of which is an entrance, so two numbers are no longer necessary. The cloverleaf with CT 34 still has two numbers (57 and 58). 68 is the last number used for an exit. CT 15 continues north from there as a local street. The highway north from here was never built, but a section of it near Hartford exists, with exits 85-91.

Okay, I've typed enough now.

[writingliberty 0]

In California, the exit numbers skip like crazy because they numbered by mile markers... so if there is no exit between mile marker 31 and 32, then there is no Exit 31. And so on. Exits within the same mile are lettered (1A,1B, etc.).

Also, the mile markers and exit numbers don't usually match, particularly in the inland part of the state, as the standard is that the exits are counted from the south or west end of the route, but the mile marker numbers reset in each county. So for example parts of I-15 in San Diego County do match because it is the south end of the route, but in Riverside and San Bernardino counties the exit numbers get progressively higher as you go away from San Diego. (Same is true for I-5 and I-8, but the other counties are different ones.)

For example, my old house (I moved last summer) was on a road that paralleled I-8 for about 3 miles, with a curve and freeway exits at both ends. It was exits 30 and 33, but there are no other exits in between.

[Sim_BOB 2]

I lived in Dallas for 16 years and these are the highways that I am pretty familiar with:

This is highway 75 heading towards Dallas

George Bush intersecting with 75

Named after the first one, NOT his son

The High 5, which I've been on, it's not as high as the name would suggest, and they painted the supporting pillars some really "interesting" colors. This photo was taken before then

this is a shot of where some major highways intersect in downtown. The system there has things labeled terribly. To go north from 35 onto 75 is a nightmare, unless you were there before they changed the suggested route to take. You can basically go both ways, but with all the quality drivers the fine city of Dallas has, it makes things difficult.

A little bit of history: For a while the Highway 75 was considered to be the most dangerous highway in America, due to only being a four lanes wide. Eventually it would make its way to being an 8 lane highway and at some places even larger. The entire southern segment was decommissioned in favor of interstate 45.

Anyways, I moved to Austin about a month ago, and I can't find any pictures of the highways here. But I hope you enjoy the ones I've shown you of Dallas!

[Please stay within the 800 x 600 limit.] Marc

[The_Dalai_Llama 15]

Nothing impressive, but here's a typical Pennsylvania highway, I-81.  It runs from the Canadian border in the Thousand Islands region south through a bunch of smaller metropolitan areas like Syracuse, NY, Scranton, PA, Harrisburg, PA, Roanoke, VA, down to its southern terminus just short of Knoxville, TN.  It's mainly used as an alternative for trucks and long-distance commuters in order to avoid the heavy traffic on other major north-south interstates because... who really wants to drive up I-95 through all those major bottlenecks?  I-95 between Virginia and southern maine is pure hell on Earth sometimes.

Below are the areas I'm used to driving on.

[The_Dalai_Llama 15]

Nothing impressive, but here's a typical Pennsylvania highway, I-81.  It runs from the Canadian border in the Thousand Islands region south through a bunch of smaller metropolitan areas like Syracuse, NY, Scranton, PA, Harrisburg, PA, Roanoke, VA, down to its southern terminus just short of Knoxville, TN.  It's mainly used as an alternative for trucks and long-distance commuters in order to avoid the heavy traffic on other major north-south interstates because... who really wants to drive up I-95 through all those major bottlenecks?  I-95 between Virginia and southern maine is pure hell on Earth sometimes.

Below are the areas I'm used to driving on.

[autoVino 26]

A picture of a highway entering/exiting Kentucky through the Cumberland Gap...

[autoVino 26]

A picture of a highway entering/exiting Kentucky through the Cumberland Gap...

[M1 0]

Isn't the Cumberland gap a short section of A74 between the M6 and A74(M) in England and Scotland?

[M1 0]

Isn't the Cumberland gap a short section of A74 between the M6 and A74(M) in England and Scotland?

[CasperVg 546]

The E40/A10 From Calais (Fr) to uhm.. can't remember, but passes trough belgium:

Believe it or not, this is the largest freeway in Belgium (3-lane)

(except for the ringway around the capital, brussels (4-lane)

The E40/A18-E17 viaduct:

[CasperVg 546]

The E40/A10 From Calais (Fr) to uhm.. can't remember, but passes trough belgium:

Believe it or not, this is the largest freeway in Belgium (3-lane)

(except for the ringway around the capital, brussels (4-lane)

The E40/A18-E17 viaduct: