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

Barcelona is the transport hub with one of Europe's principal ports, Barcelona international airport, which handles above 34 million passengers per year, extensive motorway network and also is a hub of high-speed rail, particularly that which is intended to link Spain with France and the rest of Europe as the second longest in the world.

The motorway network now covers 1, 111 km while the railway network totals 2, 667 km of operational track.

The road network in 2008 totalled 73, 197 km of paved road, including 1, 111 km of motorway.

The French motorway network or autoroute system consists largely of toll roads, except around large cities and in parts of the north.

New motorway sections are being added to the existing network, that already connects many major economically important cities to the Capital City.

It comprises both an extensive motorway network ( 6, 400 km ), mostly toll roads, and national and local roads.

It is one of the busiest and most congested parts of the British motorway network: 196, 000 vehicles were recorded in a single day near London Heathrow Airport.

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

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 Dutch motorway network is one of the densest in the world, but many motorways are lacking sufficient capacity, and many bottlenecks of 4-lane motorways are present throughout the Netherlands.

Map of planned motorway and expressway network in Poland.

By the end of 2012, 8 of the 10 largest Polish cities ( Gdańsk, Poznań, Wrocław, Łódź, Warsaw, Kraków, Katowice, Szczecin ) will have a motorway connecting them with the motorway network of Europe.

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

As of July 2012, 500 km are already in use. The construction of an extensive motorway network was among top priorities for previous government.

The existing Slovenian rails, which were mostly built in the 19th century, are out-of-date and can't compete with the motorway network.

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 Thai motorway network is small.

The dream to connect the two largest Croatian cities Zagreb and Split with a motorway ( autocesta ) went back to the times of the Croatian Spring.

The 380 km long motorway A1 Zagreb-Split connects the continental part of Croatia with Mediterranean Dalmatia.

It is approximately from the route of the M5 motorway with around a drive to junction 21 or 22.

Depending on the fashion at the time of construction it is either a single standard carriageway road, usually wide, or a 2 + 1 road, a wide road with two lanes in one direction and one in the other with a steel wire barrier in between, or sometimes a motorway with two lanes in each direction.

Urquhart mixes O ' Neill's cocaine with rat poison, causing him to kill himself when taking the cocaine in a motorway lavatory.

Lausanne is connected to the A1 motorway on its west side ( Geneva-Zurich axis ) and to the A9 on its north and east side ( for transit with Italy and France ); the interchange between these two motorways is on the north-west side of the city.

Communications and-above all-the setting of the border of the Cassa del Mezzogiorno some kilometers south of Rome, have influenced the position of industry, favouring the areas with the best links to Rome and those near the Autostrada del Sole ( motorway ), especially around Frosinone.

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.

The busiest Dutch motorway is the A16 in Rotterdam, with a traffic volume of 232. 000 vehicles per day.

The busiest 4-lane motorway in the Netherlands is the A10 in the Coen Tunnel in Amsterdam with 110. 000 vehicles per day.

The widest Dutch motorway is the A15 / A16 just south of Rotterdam with 16 lanes in a 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 setup.

* 1959 – The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway

The main east-west A2 motorway runs south of the city connecting it with Berlin in the west and Łódż and Warsaw in the east ; other main roads run in the direction of Warsaw, Bydgoszcz, Wągrowiec, Oborniki, Katowice, Wrocław, Buk and Berlin.

The M5 contraflow was said to be the most complicated ever built in the UK as the motorway is on a split level around the steep hills of the Gordano Valley ; meaning four lanes plus an additional emergency vehicle lane were squeezed into that section.

An additional near Kansas City International Airport is signed along with Interstate 29 and U. S. Route 71, making I-435 the second-longest complete beltway numbered as a single Interstate Highway in the U. S., and fifth longest in the world after Cincinnati, Ohio's Interstate 275 at, Houston, Texas's Beltway 8 at, Berlin's Bundesautobahn 10 at, and London's M25 motorway at.

Bischofsheim has only one constituent community, nevertheless it has with " An den Sportstätten " and " Dr .- Hans-Böckler-Siedlung two by train tracks / motorway divided additional parts.

An additional sliproad onto the M1 from the east was added to remove the need for traffic coming from that direction to travel around the roundabout to access the motorway.

Historically, it was to provide the route for an additional motorway connecting through the Isthmus from the east into the Auckland CBD, with an estimated cost of up to $ 4 billion, but political and local community resistance made the project fail in the 2000s.

As a result Kulmbach was even given an additional motorway junction which is now the start of today's A 70 autobahn.

The airport's master plan consists of the following elements: Increasing normal operating hours by one hour at night ( to 23: 00h ), with an additional one hour window in the morning and at night for exceptions, lengthening the runway to 2800 metres, expanding the terminal and its infrastructure, improving the motorway connections and directly connecting the airport to mass transit.

The reasons for such designation vary-physical lack of space ( A55 ), restricted budget ( e. g. A42 ; a full-standard motorway would have been more expensive than an A-road ; a motorway with additional service roads further still ), or because of legislative or political wrangling ( easier to have A-road construction or upgrade authorised and accepted than a more emotionally-charged " motorway scheme ", and does not require issuing of Special Road orders ).

UK law currently prevents motorway service area operators from displaying additional brand names other than their own company name on roadside signage.

In November 2006, it was reported that the motorway was in financial difficulties, and that additional equity would be required from the tunnel's investors in order to avoid placing the tunnel in administration.