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Detailed road map of the Netherlands (2012) The Netherlands has a public road network totaling 139,000 km, [1] one of the densest in the world. [2] [3] [nb 1] Its use has increased since the 1950s and now exceeds 200 billion km traveled per year, [5] three quarters of which is by car, [6] making it among the most intensely used road networks. [4]
The Netherlands' first centrally planned highway system dates back to the early 19th century, when Napoleon was emperor of France, and the Kingdom of Holland was annexed into the French empire. In 1811 Napoleon decreed that a network of 229 paved imperial roads ( Routes Impériales [ fr ] ) would be created, extending from Paris to the borders ...
Shortest highway in the Netherlands A 208: 1.522: 0.946 N208 at Velserbroek interchange, Haarlem: A22 at IJmuiden interchange — — A 256: 3: 1.9 A58 southwest of Goes: N256 & N664 west of Goes: 1961: current from A5 - Goes: A 261 — — A58 at Tilburg-Noord interchange: N261 at Loon on Zand interchange — 2014 Downgraded to N261 A 270: 3.3 ...
An inner ring road around the city center was defined as a hub and given the number S 100. The city routes are the spokes that connect this hub with the outer ring road, in the case of Amsterdam the A10 motorway. Each city route is in principle numbered according to the exit it connects with at the outer ring road.
Netherlands road stubs (62 P) Pages in category "Roads in the Netherlands" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Maps of the history of the Netherlands (2 P) Pages in category "Maps of the Netherlands" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Nationale Wegen (National Highways) or simply N-wegen (N-roads), was a numbering system for a set of main highway routes in the Netherlands, used from 1957 through 1976.. In 1957, signposted road numbering was introduced in the Netherlands and the governments Rijkswegen plan foresaw in an increasing number of highways, together forming a nationwide system.
This bypass consists of a 4-kilometer-long (2.5 mi) northwards extension from the existing southern section of A4 from exit 27 to provincial road N286 north of Halsteren, to relieve provincial road N259 through that same town. By the end of 2010, construction had begun, and it was planned that the road would have been finished by the end of 2013.