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11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by oluFELAxy(m): 5:50am On Aug 21, 2014 |
The term "highway" may conjure images of an endless, unchanging road, dotted by the same fast food restaurants and gas stations every few miles. But just as automakers have made endless variations of vehicles, road builders have come up with a lot of ways to get from here to there. These eleven highways from all over the world are by turns high speed, beautiful, enormous, and deadly, and they are all worth a drive. |
Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by Nobody: 5:54am On Aug 21, 2014 |
Where they at? |
Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by oluFELAxy(m): 5:55am On Aug 21, 2014 |
1. The Pan American is the longest motorway in the world. First proposed in 1923, the Pan American Highway is the world's longest highway system, stretching over roughly 16,000 miles. Drivers who take on the entire route cross through 16 countries, including the United States, Mexico, Canada, Costa Rica, and Peru.[b]1. The Pan American is the longest motorway in the world. First proposed in 1923, the Pan American Highway is the world's longest highway system, stretching over roughly 16,000 miles. Drivers who take on the entire route cross through 16 countries, including the United States, Mexico, Canada, Costa Rica, and Peru.[/b]1. The Pan American is the longest motorway in the world. First proposed in 1923, the Pan American Highway is the world's longest highway system, stretching over roughly 16,000 miles. Drivers who take on the entire route cross through 16 countries, including the United States, Mexico, Canada, Costa Rica, and Peru.
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Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by oluFELAxy(m): 5:58am On Aug 21, 2014 |
2. Highway 401 is the busiest in North America. Highway 401 , also known as the Macdonald–Cartier Freeway, is the busiest highway in North America. 420,000 vehicles drive on its 500 miles every day. Since its completion in the 1960s, the highway has served drivers in the southern, central and eastern parts of Ontario, Canada.
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Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by oluFELAxy(m): 6:00am On Aug 21, 2014 |
3. The German autobahns are the fastest highways in the world. Known as the fastest highway in the world, the German autobahns are motorways only for cars. In fact, bicycles, mopeds, pedestrians or any means of transportation unable to go faster than 38 mph, are prohibited from entering. The nationally coordinated motorway for Germany, Bundesautobahn (BAB) translates to the federal way for cars. Although 52 percent of the BAB doesn't have a speed limit,a top speed of 81 mph is recommended. Due to the high speeds of most of the vehicles traveling on the autobahn, it is illegal to stop unnecessarily on the motorway — even if you run out of fuel.
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Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by oluFELAxy(m): 6:03am On Aug 21, 2014 |
4. The Trollstigen offers amazing mountain views. Winding through the mountains of Norway, the Trollstigen, or Troll's Path, is a popular tourist attraction for the views it affords of local waterfalls and the bridges that cross the rivers that feed them. The road opened in 1936 after eight years of construction, and is closed between October and May, when winter weather makes it impassable.
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Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by oluFELAxy(m): 6:05am On Aug 21, 2014 |
5. The Guoliang Tunnel is carved into a mountain. In China's Taihang mountains, there is a 4,000-feet long road called the Guoliang Tunnel that was built by the villagers themselves. In 1972, 13 villagers began the project to carve a road along the side of a mountain in order to link their village to the outside world. On May 1, 1977, the road was opened for travelers.
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Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by oluFELAxy(m): 6:07am On Aug 21, 2014 |
6. The Big Dig is the most expensive highway project. Boston's Big Dig was estimated to cost $2.8 billion in 1985 and soared to $14.8 billion, making it the most expensive highway project ever undertaken in history. Beginning in 1991, construction for the Big Dig led to the fatal injuries of four workers and the death of a motorist, from the collapse of a concrete panel. The expressway system was finally completed in 2007.
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Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by oluFELAxy(m): 6:09am On Aug 21, 2014 |
7. Yungas Road is the deadliest road ever built. Barely ten feet wide, Bolivia's Yungas Road kills an estimated 200 to 300 travelers each year, even though it's shorter than 50 miles long. Built by Paraguayan prisoners of war in the 1930s, the road leads from the city of La Paz to the Yungas region. It was deemed the most dangerous road in the world by the Inter American Development Bank in 1995.
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Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by oluFELAxy(m): 6:10am On Aug 21, 2014 |
8. The Katy Freeway is the widest in the world. With 26 lanes in certain parts, the Katy Freeway, or Interstate 10, is the widest highway in the world. It serves more than 219,000 vehicles daily in Texas. Built in the 1960s, Interstate 10 expands across a 23 mile stretch from its intersection with Interstate 610 to the city of Katy in Texas. 1 Like
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Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by oluFELAxy(m): 6:12am On Aug 21, 2014 |
9. The Karakoram Highway is the highest paved highway in the world. Running at 16,000 ft through the Himalaya, Karakoram, and Pamir Mountains, Karakoram Highway is the highest paved highway in the world. The Indus River also runs through some parts of the road. In 1963, Pakistan and China signed an agreement to construct a road that would mutually benefit the two countries. In 1986, the Karakoram Highway officially opened to travelers and connected China with central Asian countries. The highway runs 500 miles and connects the Xinjiang region of China with Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan.
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Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by oblo(m): 6:21am On Aug 21, 2014 |
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Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by oluFELAxy(m): 6:22am On Aug 21, 2014 |
10. Hong Kong's Tuen Mun Road is known for high-volume accidents and being haunted. Built in 1977 to connect the Chinese regions of Tuen Mon and Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong's Tuen Mun Road is known for its high volume of accidents, and drivers place the blame on an usual suspect. Some believe the Tuen Mun Road is haunted by the ghosts of those who have been killed while traveling it; according the local lore, they appear in the middle of traffic, sending cars veering out of control.
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Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by shakazuldadon: 6:24am On Aug 21, 2014 |
The auto bahn is on my bucket list. |
Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by oluFELAxy(m): 6:24am On Aug 21, 2014 |
11. Or try a racing down roadway with no official speed limit at all. There are only a handful of roadways in the world that have no speed limit at all. Drivers go as fast as they want on highways in Nepal, the Isle of Man, and the states of Uttar Pradesh and Kerala in India.
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Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by oluFELAxy(m): 6:25am On Aug 21, 2014 |
Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by Nobody: 7:08am On Aug 21, 2014 |
Where's our third mainland bridge,or carter bridge,add them,or this list is incomplete. |
Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by DaGC(m): 8:27am On Aug 21, 2014 |
I've always been fascinated by the autobahns. |
Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by GAZZUZZ(m): 8:44am On Aug 21, 2014 |
Your research is incomplete, add benin-ore express road has no speed limits! [img]http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQV-6t49BCfOF-huWGGabv2IN88c50rOV5eWEqocBENYAiOkTcUegMbr5NTgg[/img] Asaba-benin express road no speed limits [img]http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSNuJH6gAvyAD10U8b4hBBbLTCoZbBmezpCS0ZoaIU24tFfwSBwfLW8FUMA[/img] Nigeria has so many other crazy roads. 1 Like |
Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by abatically(m): 11:59am On Aug 21, 2014 |
oluFELAxy: 7. Yungas Road is the I pray I never have a reason to drive through this Yungas road All the bad Nigerian roads put together are still not as dangerous as driving here. God Forbid |
Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by Marpol: 1:15pm On Aug 21, 2014 |
The North Yungas Road (alternatively known as Grove's Road, Coroico Road, Camino de las Yungas, Road of fate or Death Road) is a 61-or-69-kilometre (38 or 43 mi) road leading from La Paz to Coroico, 56 kilometres (35 mi) northeast of La Paz in the Yungas region of Bolivia. It is legendary for its extreme danger and in 1995 the Inter-American Development Bank christened it as the "world's most dangerous road". In 2006 one estimate stated that 200 to 300 travelers were killed yearly along the road. The road includes cross markings on many of the spots where vehicles have fallen.
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Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by chucky234(m): 2:07pm On Aug 21, 2014 |
GAZZUZZ: Your research is incomplete, add benin-ore express road has no speed limits!The many potholes on the roads you mentioned above makes impossible to maintain a high speed for entire journey. 1 Like |
Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by GAZZUZZ(m): 2:25pm On Aug 21, 2014 |
chucky234: The many potholes on the roads you mentioned above makes impossible to maintain a high speed for entire journey. I doubt you have been on any of these routes in a while. |
Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by chucky234(m): 2:36pm On Aug 21, 2014 |
GAZZUZZ:Well I drove from Lagos to Delta few weeks back, I just returned from Bauchi last Saturday by road. |
Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by abatically(m): 2:39pm On Aug 21, 2014 |
chucky234: The many potholes on the roads you mentioned above makes impossible to maintain a high speed for entire journey. Benin - ore road has become one of the best highways in Nigeria. Maybe u are referring to ijebu ode - ore road which is still in a very bad state. |
Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by chucky234(m): 2:46pm On Aug 21, 2014 |
abatically:The road is still riddled with potholes except for Edo portion of the highway. |
Re: 11 Wild Highways To Drive Before You Die by laivwire(m): 3:21pm On Aug 21, 2014 |
I crave for the autobahn. Next year awaits |
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