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Otoyol 4 (English: Motorway 4), named Anatolian Motorway (Turkish: Anadolu Otoyolu) and abbreviated as O-4, is a toll motorway connecting the northwestern Marmara Region to the Central Anatolia Region in Turkey.
The Otoyol 4 motorway is a major highway between the two cities, and the Ankara–Istanbul route is the busiest domestic air route in the country. The route between Istanbul and Ankara by rail has been a single-track line, and trains usually were delayed 30 minutes to 2 hours plus the average 7 hours, 30 minutes travel time.
The Otoyol (Plural: Otoyollar) is the national network of controlled-access highways in Turkey. The term Otoyol translates to motorway while the literal meaning is auto-route. The Otoyol was first opened in 1973. As of December 2023, there are 3,726 km of otoyol in service, the network passes through 28 provinces out of 81 in Turkey. [3]
O-4 near Akyazı, Sakarya: 2016 till 2020 Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge istanbul Third Beltway O-20: 110 68.4 Road forms complete ring around Ankara Road forms complete ring around Ankara 1987 Ankara beltway: O-21: 399.5 248.3 O-20 near Gölbaşı, Ankara: near Tarsus, Mersin: 1984 till 2020 O-21A: 32 19.9 near Çakmak Bucağı, Konya: O-21 near ...
The Otoyol 4 motorway is a major highway between the two cities, and the Ankara–Istanbul route is the busiest domestic air route in the country. The route between Istanbul and Ankara by rail has been a single-track line, and trains usually were delayed 30 minutes to 2 hours plus the average 7 hours, 30 minutes travel time.
Motorways are controlled-access highways that are officially named Otoyol. But it is not uncommon for people in Turkey to call them Otoban (referring to Autobahn) as this types of roads entered popular culture by the means of Turks in Germany. These roads depend on the General Directorate of Highways except those that are financed with a BOT model.
It was implemented in September 17, 2012 to replace the slow KGS which needed drivers to stop at the booth to pay for the toll and caused congestion during rush hour. [2] [3] [4] KGS was fully phased out by February 2013. [5] [6] It was used alongside the OGS (electronic toll collection) system, [2] although OGS was retired on March 31, 2022. [7]
List of otoyol routes in Turkey This page was last edited on 4 November 2024, at 20:34 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...