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Sterling Highway at mile 170 (km 274), descending a long, steep hill (locally known as "Baycrest Hill") towards Homer. The Sterling Highway is a 138-mile-long (222 km) state highway in the south-central region of the U.S. state of Alaska, leading from the Seward Highway at Tern Lake Junction, 90 miles (140 km) south of Anchorage, to Homer.
National Route 1 (Vietnamese: Quốc lộ 1 (or abbrv.QL.1) or Đường 1), also known as National Route 1A, is the trans-Vietnam highway.The route begins at km 0 at Hữu Nghị Quan Border Gate near the China-Vietnam border, [1] runs the length of the country connecting major cities including Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City, and ends at km 2301.34 [citation needed] at Năm Căn township ...
Later reports raised estimated costs to US$56 billion (almost 60 percent of Vietnam's GDP in 2009) for a completion date in the mid-2030s. On June 19, 2010, after a month of deliberation, Vietnam's National Assembly rejected the high speed rail proposal due to its high cost; National Assembly deputies had asked for further study of the project.
The Hải Vân Pass (Vietnamese: Đèo Hải Vân, IPA: [ɗɛ̂w ha᷉ːj vən], 'ocean cloud pass'), is an approximately 21-kilometre (13 mi) long mountain pass on National Route 1 in Vietnam. It traverses a spur of the larger Annamite Range that juts into the South China Sea on the border of Đà Nẵng and Thừa Thiên–Huế Province ...
National Route 1B is a 135 km long east-west Vietnamese highway. The starting point is in Dong Dang town, Cao Loc district, Lang Son province at the intersection of National highways 1 and 4A. The end of the route is at the crossroads near Gia Bay bridge in Thai Nguyen city.
The Shelling of Highway 1 (Vietnamese: Đại lộ Kinh Hoàng, Highway of Horror) was the killing of South Vietnamese soldiers and civilians by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) during the Easter Offensive of the Vietnam War, on Highway 1, between Quảng Trị and Huế, South Vietnam from 29 April to 2 May 1972.
Hanoi–Ninh Bình Expressway, part of the North–South Expressway East. The Expressway network of Vietnam is a recent addition to the transport network of Vietnam.The first expressways were opened in the early-2000s, by 2020, the expressway network is expected to stretch 1,276 kilometres (793 mi) and plans are for over 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) of expressway by 2030.
The southern end of the Hải Vân Tunnel. The Hải Vân Tunnel, the second longest tunnel in Southeast Asia (after Singapore's 12.46 km (7.7 mi) long Kallang-Paya Lebar-Marina Central Expressway tunnel) and the longest in Vietnam at 6.28 km (3.90 mi), lies on Highway 1 between the two cities of Da Nang and Huế in central Vietnam.