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

[sirdanilot 8]

There are no highways near me. The nearest highways are across the border in Belgium (15 km drive or so) and across the sea estuary of the Westerschelde (connected by a toll tunnel).

The 'intersection' near Moerbeke/Kruisstraat, Belgium, with the A11/E34 is almost funny. Turning left is probably about as dangerous as smoking two packages of cigarettes everyday or so, since there's no fly-over. The asphalt quality is also abonimable. I have heard reports of people driving into holes and getting back-aches on Belgian roads etc.

Couldn't find a picture, so Google will have to do...

http://maps.google.be/maps?hl=nl&q=kruisstraat&ie=UTF8&ll=51.199919,3.939044&spn=0.001993,0.005686&t=h&z=18&iwloc=A

Not sure if that works, so here is a screenshot:

http://g.imagehost.org/0975/kruisstraat_kruispunt.jpg (click the link, since it's too big)

Dutch roads are a bit better. This is not officially a highway, but who cares. It's a 6.6 km long tunnel under the Westerschelde. Unfortunately, it's a toll tunnel (and the only one in the country...)

This is the nearest 'real' highway on my side of the border.

Then, there used to be a highway leading to a car ferry terminal, but due to the tunnel it's now no longer in use. Old times... sorry, this is the best picture I could find...

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: sirdanilot

http://www.autosnelwegen.nl/asw/galerie/ak15.jpgquote>

Yeah... see, you can't just post images directly from other sites like that. It's called "hotlinking" and some sites won't allow you to do it. So you may see the image because it's in your browser's cache, but we don't.

Solution? Transload it to a service that's intended specifically to hotlink images from, like Imageshack.

And there it is:

Also.... 800 pixels. That's the width limit. Your google maps screesnshot needs resizing.

[sirdanilot 8]

Updated. Why is the limit only 800? Something larger doesn't stretch the screen for me... but I guess it's because I have a really large monitor (24" or so, maybe even more) and thus a different resolution?

[lammert 0]

Brussels Ring Road

avenue de tervuren:

e40

other roads in brussels :

[kusanagi-sama 1]

Originally posted by: autoVino

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

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Why does the tunnel go down and not up?

[mimoys1 2]

they are cool and wide

[Buggie 1]

Originally posted by: Duke87

Originally posted by: M1 Isn't the Cumberland gap a short section of A74 between the M6 and A74(M) in England and Scotland?quote>

Wouldn't surprise me. A lot of place names in the eastern/northeastern US are taken from place names in England. The were originally English colonies, after all...quote>

I am sorry if I am quoting somthing 2 years old.

The Cumberland gap is derived from the notion that it is a gap through the Cumberland Mountains, a part of the Appalachians. I think. Or it could be the name of the Cumberland river that flos nearby it.

Will put pics of Flagstaff and Moscow in a while, when I find them.

[kingdiz_55 12]

Here's another one from the Philippines. Its NLEX (North Luzon Expressway). BTW, the picture's not mine.

[Aontan 0]

Here's a video of the motorway interchange that CraigKingOfIreland and rainyday both showed, the M50/N7 (Red Cow) interchange just outside Dublin, which is now finished:

 

The roundabout junction is completely gone and the Luas (light rail, you can see it from around 1:40 at the right) line that went through the roundabout is now completely segregated from the road. Both motorways are also a few lanes wider now. It's a huge improvement, unsurprisingly.

Also, possibly in honour of SimCity...

...it was invaded by a few llamas a few weeks ago. 

[morriswalters 16]

Kinda on topic.

www.popularmechanics.com/technology/transportation/4338387.html

[Jurek 100 2]

Here is a pic of a highway in my home city of Chicago...

[emgmod 16]

Who owns the rail line in the median?

[Jurek 100 2]

The CTA transportation department owns the subway network which stretchs to about 15miles long with all the rails combined within Chicago.

[UnumProvident 1]

This is the highway where my home town is