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

[Evildead666 0]

Here are a few from my current home of Knoxville, Tennessee

This is part of TDOT's "Smart Fix" where they close down I-40 and James White Pkwy and completly re-build it while re-routing numerous commuters on to side streets and by-passes. Smart hua?

And now, a few from my old home Tampa, Florida

sure don't miss that.

This guy is a little TOO happy about the new malfunction junction being finished.

There you go. Not as eye pleasing as Singapore or as overcrowded as Atlanta, but they get you where you need to go....mostly.

[atilla5 6]

Here's a few typical interstate highway photos here in South Dakota, US (it's a little difficult to get over head photos of the highways)

My exit!!!!

Here's a road closed in a blizzard...lol

[charactersnotpermitted 3]

For those of you who dont know, which is probably almost everyone not in the UK, the M25 is a highway (or what us brits call a motorway) which encircles the whole of London...

I still cant work out why some people call it the worlds largest car park...?

[n-m-2k8-yeah 0]

Orginally Northern Ireland was going to have the most extensive motorway network in the UK (Maps from wesleyjohnston.com)...

But a few factors (mainly the troubles) halted construction of the motorways and in 1973 the project was stopped by Westminister government after the Northern Ireland Government was dissolved. This is the network as it lies now and has done since 1973 (with the exception of the M3 which was constructed in the early 90s)...

Well, that's it for the history lesson here's some pics...

The M1 begins at junction 1 (Broadway). In this picture we are looking north along the M1 from the roof of the Broadway underpass. Note that the M1 does not have hard shoulders through the underpass. The M1 becomes the A12 Westlink just ahead where the sliproads join. 

Looking east along the M1 at junction 9, Moira this western portion of the motorway is fast and pleasant to use due to lower traffic levels. 

The Busiest road in Northern Ireland (Well not on a Sunday) - The ten-lane foreshore section, here seen heading south and approaching junction 1B. 

Looking west from junction 7 at Crosskennan. The carriageways split here - this would have been the M2 / M22 split had the motorway been completed.  In the split carriageway section seen above, this is the view back towards the ghost carriageway of the M2 that would have come from Ballymena, but was never built. 

The M3 is a true urban motorway, bulit as a 'Harbour Bypass' across the river lagan from the M2 to the City Airport . The M2 is towards the top.

The M3 (on the extreme right) comes down from its flyovers to merge with M1/A12 Westlink traffic (foreground) to form the M2 (going into distance). This junction is thus the centre of Northern Ireland's motorway network.

[MaxMan3 6]

We have a spaghetti junction in the UK (birmingham) junction 6 of the M6 motorway

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: MaxMan3 We have a spaghetti junction in the UK (birmingham) junction 6 of the M6 motorwayquote>

"spaghetti junction", "mixing bowl", "malfunction junction"... very common names that people give to interchanges. Exactly what it refers to depending on where you're from. There are dozens of interchanges known by each of those names.

[TmiguelT 10]

i'll just show you a picture of this magnificent highway ( yes it is a Highway and a very Busy Highway).

Highway name: Pasamayo / Panamericana Norte.

Location: Ancon, Peru.

[charactersnotpermitted 3]

Woah those pictures above look amazing!

[sneakeypete 16]

Brisbane, QLD, Australia

I could ramble on about poor government planning, but to put it basically, we have a horrible highway system in the local city area serving the approximatly 1.4million who live here. Still, its got some neat bits

This is the main freeway leading south out of the CBD

This is the 'riverside expressway', the northwards continuation of the freeway in the first picture

We've also got a very large prefabricated concrete bridge over the river, as part of a freeway forming a bypass around the town. its being duplicated, to be finished next year.

There's a lot of congestion on the roads, some caused by lanes ending (near the suburb i live in, the outbound freeway goes from 3 to 2 lanes. The stoppages from that frequently extend off the freeway itself and onto some of the major roads that cross it), or by exit ramps not having near enough capacity/congestion on the other roads spilling back.

Luckily, there's a lot of public works going on right now. Duplication of the bridge and widening of the bypass road, widening of some of the other freeways (including the lane merge near where i live!), and a tunnel for a new freeway near the CBD.

As far as "highways" in QLD go, well, most are not dual carrigeway (major road west to the second largest city of the state is, and the major road south to the rest of the country is), and the highways leading north along the coast, and inland from them, are usually just 2 lane roads with occasional overtaking lanes (eg, 2 lanes one way, one the other) depending on the amount of traffic and the amount of hills.

This is a good example (although the majority do have  decent road shoulders)

Combine  the fact that the speed limit is usually between 100km/h and 110km/h (about 60-70mph), that, you've got no centeral barrier, so your passing objects with a combined speed or somewhere in excess of 200km/h just meters from your car, kangaroo's hoping in front of you, and the fact that it floods every now and again, makes it to be a pretty bloody dangerous road. Heck, when i drove the highway from brisbane to cairns, (~1400km each way. took 6 days, plenty of rest stops), i passed a fatal truck crash.

PS, this is my first post, so hi ST.

[ExiL3 10]

Hi there sneakypete, welcome to ST!

I visited a friend in Brisbane in June/July 2008, a VERY long flight for a Norwegian I can tell you that much (~35Hrs with waits).  Anyhoo, I do remember that highway in and out of Brissie CBD, I can also remember you guys having quite the fancy bus-line with it's own separate roads. Quite neat!

I stayed in Upper Mt.Gravatt if that tells you anything...

So, to the highways that are close to me:

Oslo area

E18

E6

Ring-road 3

Ring-road 1 (E18)

Ring-road 2

- A very poorly planned highway system in Oslo as you can see...

take care,

[MaxMan3 6]

 The old severn bridge   New Severn Bridge (England-Wales)        

[SexySim 0]

how do u get the picture on here is there a website

[Haljackey 17,380]

Originally posted by: SexySim

how do u get the picture on here is there a websitequote>

You need to upload them to a hosting site, such as imageshack.  This version of ST has a imageshack tab built-into the reply box for easy uploading.

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Anyways, a reconstruction/widening project was just completed in my hometown of London.  Let me share some pics of that here:

You can also click for full resolution if you want to!

It starts at the 401/402 interchange in the southwest part of the city. 

The busy highway was also widened and has high-mast lighting installed.

A good view of the area:

Ramps leading from a Parclo A-4 interchange are able to merge before joining the main carriageway.

A look in the other direction also has a smilar format:

We also got one of these cool electronic signs installed!  

All pics were from http://www.onthighways.com/hwy_401_images/Hwy401_p4_images.htm

You can head over there to see some more pics if you want to.  

[DavidBrown 0]

Some from my area - north Devon, England;

 

And my nearest motorway - the M5.

[aiumkastarkius 0]

Intersection of 285 and 85 in Atlanta

This is exit 4 of the turnpike and exit 31 of I-295 in Mount Laurel, NJ as well as State route 73. Note all the hotels between the highways which make Mount Laurel #3 in NJ for hotel rooms! I live less than a mile away

[TekindusT 3,809]

Here's Nus de la Trinitat, the north road entrance in Barcelona. It's crazy!

[koolkalang 2]

Where I live right now is boring, so I'm gonna show you guys where I used to live. XD

I didn't take these pics - just google manila highways

highway with MRT (elrail/subway/tram)

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: haljackey

We also got one of these cool electronic signs installed!

http://www.onthighways.com/hwy_401_images/401_dv_191_west.jpgquote>

I understand that VMSs can be useful, but wouldn't that message better be handled by a static sign?

[futurama2506sim 7]

Here's a picture of highways 280, 680 and 101 coming together in San Jose, California. I don't live in San Jose, but I'm (sorta) nearby and this is the best picture I have for any highways near Sacramento.

[emgmod 16]

Here's some pictures of Interstate H-3 in Hawaii. This highway costs about 80 million dollars per mile. (50 million/km)

Both viaducts crossing Halawa Valley.

H-3 weaving around the Koolau Mountains.

Full size: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Koolau_Range_03.JPG

The western end of the Tetsuo Harano Tunnels.

[Craig91 12]

This is a recently complete intersection in Dublin, Ireland (Click for larger)

And another one nearby when still being upgraded

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: CraigKingOfIreland

This is a recently complete intersection in Dublin, Ireland quote>

This might be a transatlantic difference in terminology, but....

...that's not an intersection, it's an interchange. An intersection is when two or more roads meet at the same level, with a stop sign, signal, etc. An interchange is when two or more oads go under/over each other, connected by ramps.

[Craig91 12]

Tomato, tomato ...hhmmmm, doesn't really work when tying

[rainyday 2]

Are those the N4 and N7. They look different since I saw them last. Here: N4:

N7:

The Change is a lot better. There is still a lot of traffic as far as I understand though. 

[Duke87 1,070]

Roundabout junctions. Some places in Europe seem to be very fond of those. I've never really understood why. If a simple diamond interchange won't cut it, a SPUI would probably be cheaper to build, take up less room, and be generally superior in function to one of those monstrosities. Look at all the weaving you create with those things.

Besides, roundabouts generally work best when they're a single lane. You start joining multilane roads into multilane roundabout and it simply doesn't work as well.

[WillG_75 19]

Originally posted by: autoVino

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

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I've been through that tunnel on my way to Bristol 

[Martin892 4]

The most spectacular freeway intersection in the Netherlands is the Prins Clausplein, the A12 (The Hague - Zoetermeer) freeway crosses the A4 (Amsterdam - Rotterdam, the 2x4 lanes one) here.

[un1 41]

Thunder Bay Expressway:

Just outside of Thunder Bay:

Generally the speed up here is 90km/h on the Trans Canada/ important roads. It is 80km/h on secondary highways. (Generally 60km/h in small towns...)

This past year the MTO finally confirmed that they are upgrading the Trans Canada (Highway 11/17) outside of Thunder Bay to an expressway (the Thunder Bay Expressway will become I freeway I hope).. Because they finally realised that if there was a fatal accident on the highway, all traffic accross Canada (or Winipeg to Toronto) would stop, because there isn't a bypass to the highway around here.

[awake_78 0]

Here are some pics of Greeks Highways.

These are from [A2] "Egnatia odos" highway in Northern Greece

And these are from [6] "Attiki odos" Athens ring road

this is the intersection with [A1] the main Highway connecting Athens with Thessaloniki, the second bigest city in Greece.

And this is the the airport intersection...

[UrbanSprawl 5]

These are from Interstate 35W in Fort Worth

at I-20

at I-30