* Beira-Lobito Highway: this east-west highway crosses Katanga and requires re-construction over most of its length, being an earth track between the Angolan border and Kolwezi, a paved road in very poor condition between Kolwezi and Lubumbashi, and a paved road in fair condition over the short distance to the Zambian border.

The city is connected to Arnhem, to the north, by a " fietssnelweg " ( fast cycle highway ) which crosses the Snelbinder bridge in the city.

Some major highway routes include ferry services, such as U. S. Route 10, which crosses Lake Michigan.

The former is the historic highway north to Chicago via Cairo, Illinois, while the latter roughly parallels the Mississippi River for most of its course and crosses the Mississippi Delta region to the south, with the Delta also legendary for Blues music.

The city's connection to the highway is only accessible by ferry in the summer, or in the dead of winter, directly over the frozen Lena River, as Yakutsk lies entirely on its western bank, and there is no bridge anywhere in the Sakha Republic that crosses the Lena.

east of Fredericton, the St. John River turns south whereby the highway crosses the river at Jemseg and continues heading east to Moncton another later.

From Truro, the highway continues east for to New Glasgow ( where it links with provincial Highway 106 — that portion of the Trans-Canada running to the ferry terminal at Caribou ), and then northeast for another to the Canso Causeway which crosses the Strait of Canso to Cape Breton Island near Port Hawkesbury.

The highway crosses the mouth of the Columbia River over the 4-mile-long ( 6-km ) Astoria-Megler Bridge at Astoria into Washington, and follows the Columbia downstream to Ilwaco.

While the AAA has designated this segment north and then east to Port Angeles and Sequim as a scenic byway, some clear-cut logging in the early 1990s has diminished the scenic value of the highway where it crosses the Quinault Indian Reservation and the Olympic National Forest.

A short distance later, the highway crosses to the south of a construction site and crosses over the southbound lanes of the Garden State Parkway ( Route 444 ) and intersects with the on-ramp from the southbound lanes.

After that intersection, the route becomes an undivided highway and crosses County Route 547 ( Wyckoff Road ), where it becomes Broad Street.

U. S. Route 9 and Route 35 split at an interchange ( the former Victory Circle ) that features access to the southbound Garden State Parkway by way of Chevalier Avenue, with Route 35 continuing north on a four-lane divided highway that passes through marshland and crosses the Raritan River on the Victory Bridge into Perth Amboy.

This highway crosses the Tennessee River at Watts Bar Dam.

The main highway routes crossing Chase County are U. S. Route 6 which crosses east-west and Nebraska Highway 61 which crosses north-south.

Route 23 crosses into Sussex, where the route becomes Hamburg Avenue and turns into an undivided highway again, passing by residences.

A small ferry ( for cars, bikes, and pedestrians ) crosses the Nederrijn to the south of the city, at Lexkesveer ; from there, drivers can connect to the A15 national highway, via the N836 provincial road.

Highway 88 itself is predominantly a winding two-lane highway which crosses the mountain passes at between seven and eight thousand feet elevation.

The highway crosses the Sacramento River via the Helen Madere Memorial Bridge, colloquially known as the Rio Vista Bridge.

Because of highway construction in the 1960s, the waterfalls were buried under Interstate 195, which crosses the Taunton River at Battleship Cove.

Route 128, the chief circumferential highway of the Boston area, crosses Beverly from east to west and connects the city to Interstate 95 and U. S. Route 1 in Danvers.

A short stretch ( 2 / 3 of a mile long ) of Massachusetts Route 3 crosses the northeast corner of town, granting access to Route 228, which terminates just south of the highway.

* Lake Leelanau is an unincorporated community situated on the " Narrows " between North and South Lake Leelanau ; Michigan highway M-204 crosses the Narrows here.

Nostalgic Yankee readers of Erskine Caldwell are today informed by proud Georgians that Tobacco Road is buried beneath a four-lane super highway, over which travel each day suburbanite businessmen more concerned with the Dow-Jones average than with the cotton crop.

As the bus turned into the main highway and headed toward Hanover I settled back in my seat and closed my eyes, thinking over the events of the past two weeks, trying to put the pieces in order.

Now the dirt highway was bordered on either side by a fairly deep drainage ditch, too broad to leap over unless you were an Olympic star.

On the highway he relaxed and enjoyed the drive over Lake Pontchartrain and along the coast.

When he turned into the highway that led to the outskirts of the city and then rose toward home, he had to pull over to the curb and wait for a few minutes, sucking in air and squinting and blinking his eyes to clear them of tears.

Recent studies suggest that deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon could increase sharply in the future as a result of over US $ 40 billion in planned investments in highway paving and major new infrastructure projects in the region.

Bel Geddes expounds upon his design in his book Magic Motorways, stating, “ Futurama is a large-scale model representing almost every type of terrain in America and illustrating how a motorway system may be laid down over the entire country – across mountains, over rivers and lakes, through cities and past towns – never deviating from a direct course and always adhering to the four basic principles of highway design: safety, comfort, speed and economy .” He had acknowledged this in the belief that “ A free-flowing movement of people and goods across our nation is a requirement of modern living and prosperity .”

) The most influential modern theories favor either a march up the valley of the Drôme and a crossing of the main range to the south of the modern highway over the Col de Montgenèvre or a march farther north up the valleys of the Isere and Arc crossing the main range near the present Col de Mont Cenis or the Little St Bernard Pass.

This highway can now be traversed in a few hours, while in 2002 the trip took over 9 hours along a very bumpy ( and scenic ) route.

The main highway of the country extends over 800 km, reaching the Thai border from Singapore.

The longest highway of the country, the North-South Expressway, extends over between the Thai border and Singapore.

For the purposes of the English law, Highways Act 1980, which covers England and Wales but not Scotland or Northern Ireland, the term road is defined to be " any length of highway or of any other road to which the public has access, and includes bridges over which a road passes.

A 1984 ruling said " the land over which a public right of way exists is known as a highway ; and although most highways have been made up into roads, and most easements of way exist over footpaths, the presence or absence of a made road has nothing to do with the distinction.

Like traffic merging on a highway, the water flow is constricted in both directions because it must pass over the Camarinal Sill.

In some respects, Thailand can be seen as a greater threat to Laos's independence than Vietnam because of its closer cultural affinity, its easier access, and its control over the railroad and highway routes to the sea.

This highway travels over the newly constructed Veterans ' Glass City Skyway which was most expensive ODOT project ever at its completion.

The bridge, arching over the road, spanned the distance between the lower gardens of Achilleion and the nearby beach ; its remains, a monument to imperial vanity as well as impracticality, are an important landmark on the highway.

* Chinook Scenic Byway, a scenic highway over the Cascade Range in Washington State

Australia's Highway 1 is the longest national highway in the world at over and runs almost the entire way around the continent.

* Longest national highway ( circuit ): Australia's Highway 1 at over.

Toll roads peaked in the mid 19th century, and by the turn of the twentieth century most toll roads were taken over by state highway departments.