With 56. 8 km of motorway per 1, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, Luxembourg probably now has the highest density of motorways in Europe.

The motorway system has been incorporated with the Øresund Bridge ; the European route E20 goes over the bridge and then, together with the European route E6 follows the Swedish west coast from Malmö – Helsingborg to Gothenburg.

Originally built mainly as a dual three-lane motorway, much of the motorway has subsequently been widened to dual four-lanes in places and to a dual five-lane section between junctions 12 and 14 and a dual six-lane between junctions 14 and 15.

The Netherlands has a motorway density of 57. 5 kilometers per 1, 000 km², the most dense motorway network in the European Union.

Current motorway expansion mostly occurs outside the Randstad, and very little construction has taken place inside the Randstad since the 1980s.

The population has grown by 1. 5 million since, creating significant pressure on the motorway network.

The Netherlands has one of the most advanced motorway networks in the world, with Variable Message Signs and electronic signalization across most of the network.

The region has the longest motorway network amongst the Italian regions ( about 800 km ).

Nevertheless, it has been gaining momentum with the completion of the motorway cross.

Slovenia has a very high motorway density compared to the European Union average.

The Swiss motorway network has a total length of 1, 638 km ( as of 2000 ) and has also-with an area of 41, 290 km²-one of the highest motorway densities in the world.

A motorway network across Thailand has been gradually implemented, with motorways completed in Bangkok and most of central Thailand.

The opening of the Drogheda bypass has led to the development of two large retail parks adjacent to the motorway, either side of the Boyne cable bridge.

At the heart of Scotland's Central Belt, Stirling has direct road connections to the major cities of Glasgow, via the M80 motorway, and Edinburgh, via the M9 motorway, as well as inter-city rail links from Stirling Railway Station.

Numerous infrastructure connecting adjacent junction as directional Torano it branches in the A25 to Pescara, Teramo to Giulianova on SS80, SS81 to Chieti and on the A14 Bologna-Taranto, exit on the freeway Rieti Valley Jump-Terni, exit west on SS80 to L ' Aquila Teramo, near Tivoli and the connection to the A1 motorway allows easy connections with Naples and Milan, the highway construction has contributed greatly to the economic development of the region.

Italy has been the first European country to apply the use of motorway tolls on a 50 km motorway section near Milan in 1924.

The UK Highways Agency has a publicly-owned CCTV network of over 1, 200 cameras covering the English motorway and trunk road network.

The name " Parkway " has since been applied to other out-of-town stations of a park and ride nature despite its presumed original reference to the Bristol Parkway, the nearby M32 motorway running through parkland.

* 2008 – A EuroCity express train en-route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others.

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 .”

He replaced Martin Lamble, who had died on 12 May 1969 in a road accident, on the M1 motorway.

Riina wanted the murder carried out in Sicily in a demonstration of Mafia power, he instructed that the attack should be on a stretch of coastal motorway Falcone had to use to get from the airport on his visits.

In order to connect Halsskov on Zealand with Knudshoved on Funen, 18 kilometres to its west, a two-track railway and a four-lane motorway had to be built, aligned via the small island of Sprogø in the middle of the Great Belt.

He died, aged 44 years, in a car crash on a motorway in May 1979, a year after the last of the robbers had completed his sentence.

In 1966 it had been intended that the motorway would follow a different route out of London, starting at Dalston and heading north-east to Walthamstow then north past Chingford and Waltham Cross to meet the current alignment north of Harlow and the proposed section of the motorway from South Woodford to Islington would have been the designated as the M12.

There had been plans for a service station on the motorway as long ago as 1969, at Chigwell, but after years of speculation these plans were abandoned in 1980.

The main runway at Duxford had been shortened in 1977 from to when the motorway was built.

By 1965, the remaining sections of motorway Stafford – Preston and Preston – Lancaster had been completed.

On 18 April 2011, tenor Jason Blair was filmed ironing on the M1 motorway in London, UK, a section of which had been closed following a fire.

By the time of the motorway's full opening, the remaining parts of the original M40 had been widened to dual three motorway creating a dual three lane motorway from start to finish.

M40's first service station opened as Cherwell Valley services in 1994 on the site of temporary toilet areas which had been created when the motorway was constructed.

The M40 had been expected to be the last major motorway constructed in the UK, but during the final stages of construction the Conservative government announced a major new road building scheme ( Roads for Prosperity ); much of which was later cancelled after major road protests.

The Preston Bypass, the UK's first motorway section, should have been numbered A6 ( M ) under the scheme decided upon, but it was decided to keep the number M6 as had already been applied.

By April 2006, Compass had spun off its motorway service stations to Moto bought by Macquarie Bank of Sydney, Australia.

Whilst the 1989 opening of the improved A361 connection to the motorway network helped in some ways to promote trade, notably weekend tourism, it had a detrimental effect on a number of distribution businesses.

The latter had previously viewed the town as a base for local distribution networks, a need that was removed with an approximate halving of travelling time to the M5 motorway.

This plan had developed from early schemes prior to the Second World War through Patrick Abercrombie's County of London Plan, 1943 and Greater London Plan, 1944 to a 1960s Greater London Council ( GLC ) scheme that would have involved the construction of many miles of motorway standard roads across the city and demolition on a massive scale. Due to the huge construction costs and widespread public opposition, most of the scheme was cancelled in 1973 and the Westway, the West Cross Route and East Cross Route in east London were the only significant parts to be built.

By the 1960s the proposed upgrade of the A580 to dual carriageway in Lancashire had come to be considered inadequate, and there was " an urgent need " to link Liverpool to the motorway network.

To build this section of motorway, of material was moved, of which were solid rock ; of this material was peat, which had to be cut from the rock strata and was eventually deposited on hillsides adjacent to the motorway.

In 2004 works were carried out, at a cost of £ 38 million, to allow the road to continue without being interrupted by a roundabout at junction 13 of the M4 motorway, which had caused a " bottleneck ".< ref ><

From Tokyo to Istanbul, they drove a total of before joining the European motorway network for another to London.

In Slavonia there is now another motorway, A5, along the European route E73 ( European north-south corridor Vc ) between the Hungarian border at Beli Manastir, Osijek and the Bosnian border.

Timişoara – Arad ( 32 km ) and Arad's ring-road ( 12 km ), part of the A1 motorway ( Bucharest – Nădlac ) are another projects completed in 2011. In the same year, half of Constanța's ring-road was ready.

In order to complete another 100 km of motorway by end of 2010, Romanian Government struggled to allocate the necessary funds for 55 km motorway, part of the Bucharest – Ploieşti motorway ( from a total of 62 km ).

From Bogø another causeway connects to the small island of Farø, which acts as the centre point for the Farø Bridges carrying the motorway between Zealand and Falster.

Motorway 5 ( A5 ), referred to as the Ionia Odos, or Via Ionia is another motorway currently under construction.

* M9 motorway ( Russia ) is another name for the Baltic Highway in Russia

Construction of the motorway was unusually swift, given the eagerness to replace the A77 after another fatal crash in 2003 claiming the life of an off duty, top-ranking police officer, and the motorway was opened in April 2005.

* Metroad 7 ( M7 ), another motorway in Sydney, Australia

Following the AH1 and the AH5 from Tokyo ( the Highway grid's furthest point East ) to Istanbul ( furthest West ), they drove a total of 12089 km ( 7512 miles ) before joining the European motorway network for another 3259 km ( 2025 miles ) to London.

It is one of only three motorways in the UK which form a concurrency with another motorway, the M9 which it then leaves again and continues for before becoming the A876.

Development of another new road, the M27 motorway enabled Hedge End to expand further in the final two decades of the 20th century, although as a Southampton suburb, rapid development had commenced in the two decades before the arrival of the motorway.

It also calls for a complementary project for another motorway called South Corridor, connecting downtown San Juan with Rawson and other southern suburbs.

C-31 highway comes directly from Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes in Barcelona to Mataró and intersects perpendicularly with Ronda del Litoral ( B-10 motorway ) in the middle of town, forming a major highway interchange, and allowing B-10 to be linked with Ronda de Dalt ( B-20 motorway ) at Nus de la Trinitat, another major highway interchange in northern Barcelona.

It has so far not been developed probably due to its triangular shape and stranded location between the motorway along one edge, the railway line another and a road unsuited to heavy lorries on the third.

This then joins with another stretch of motorway, opened 29 May 2008 bypassing Carlow, rejoining the old N9 at Powerstown. Further south, the N9 crosses the River Barrow bypassing Leighlinbridge to the west, and continuing south to pass west of Muine Bheag, then entering County Kilkenny.

Motorists can also use both the northbound and southbound facilities by driving through no-entry signs to leave the motorway, cross the motorway on a normal unclassified road and re-enter the motorway services on the other side through another no-entry sign.