Motorway Roads

The federal motorway network famous for long stretches without a general speed limit. The Cologne to Bonn road of 1932 was the fir...

The A1 from Milan through Florence to Naples, opened in 1964 after a decade of work through the Apennines. Called the Highway of t...

The first intercity motorway in Britain, opened by Ernest Marples in November 1959 between Watford and Rugby. Built to move traffi...

The ring road around Greater London, One of the busiest ring roads on earth, opened by Margaret Thatcher in 1986. Crosses the Tham...

The largest public works project in American history, launched by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. Around 78,500 km of control...

Coast to coast from Teaneck, New Jersey to San Francisco, roughly tracing the old Lincoln Highway, Oregon Trail and first transcon...

The largest expressway system on earth, grown from the 1988 Shanghai to Jiading road to about 184,000 km. Built at astonishing spe...

Elevated urban motorway network through Tokyo, first opened in 1962 ahead of the Olympics. The iconic C1 loop threads between skys...

The first six lane access controlled expressway in India, cutting the Mumbai to Pune run from 4 hours to 2. Climbs the Western Gha...

Seoul to Busan backbone built in just over two and a half years and opened in 1970. It carried the industrialization of South Kore...

The 1940 Irwin to Carlisle stretch was the first long distance limited access highway in America, using recycled railroad tunnels ...

The densest trafficked toll road in the United States, opened in 1952 from the Delaware Memorial Bridge to the George Washington B...

The A6 and A7 chain from Paris to Marseille, complete in 1974, that gave France its holiday migration south. The Viaduc de Millau ...

The Windsor to Quebec corridor across Ontario, completed in 1964, is among the widest and busiest highways on earth, reaching 18 c...

The crossing of the Nullarbor Plain from Port Augusta to Norseman, first built for wartime transport in 1941 and fully sealed by 1...

The MKAD orbital that for decades marked the city limit of Moscow. Completed as a four lane ring in 1962, it was rebuilt in the 19...

The Tokyo to Nagoya expressway, fully opened in 1969, which together with the Meishin formed the first long distance motorway spin...

A six lane access controlled expressway from Greater Noida to Agra, opened in 2012 along the east bank of the Yamuna. It cut drivi...