Furthest you can drive from Britain?

luchar · Post by **luchar** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 18:44

What about the furthest you can drive without leaving motorway-status (or approaching) roads (considering you can use the Channel Tunnel)? By 2015, Ankara? Since there is a motorway linking Istanbul and Ankara and Istanbul and the border.

MOTORAL1987 · Post by **MOTORAL1987** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 13:19

Singapore is the limit that you can travel by car from Britain

ChrisH · Post by **ChrisH** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 14:58

luchar wrote:What about the furthest you can drive without leaving motorway-status (or approaching) roads (considering you can use the Channel Tunnel)? By 2015, Ankara? Since there is a motorway linking Istanbul and Ankara and Istanbul and the border.

I would have thought by 2015 you could get to Moscow and beyond (Nizhny Novgorod perhaps), which is slightly further as the crow flies than Ankara. The road through Belarus and Russia is supposedly "motorway standard" (albeit Soviet

) and Poland is cracking on with its network.

luchar · Post by **luchar** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 09:57

ChrisH wrote:
luchar wrote:What about the furthest you can drive without leaving motorway-status (or approaching) roads (considering you can use the Channel Tunnel)? By 2015, Ankara? Since there is a motorway linking Istanbul and Ankara and Istanbul and the border.
I would have thought by 2015 you could get to Moscow and beyond (Nizhny Novgorod perhaps), which is slightly further as the crow flies than Ankara. The road through Belarus and Russia is supposedly "motorway standard" (albeit Soviet ) and Poland is cracking on with its network.

I am not sure the 4 lane hwy around Minsk in Bielorussia is a "motorway".... And from the Bielorrussian border to Moscow, I don't think the road is grade separated or will be...

Michael · Post by **Michael** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 12:15

luchar wrote:
ChrisH wrote:
luchar wrote:What about the furthest you can drive without leaving motorway-status (or approaching) roads (considering you can use the Channel Tunnel)? By 2015, Ankara? Since there is a motorway linking Istanbul and Ankara and Istanbul and the border.
I would have thought by 2015 you could get to Moscow and beyond (Nizhny Novgorod perhaps), which is slightly further as the crow flies than Ankara. The road through Belarus and Russia is supposedly "motorway standard" (albeit Soviet ) and Poland is cracking on with its network.
I am not sure the 4 lane hwy around Minsk in Bielorussia is a "motorway".... And from the Bielorrussian border to Moscow, I don't think the road is grade separated or will be...

I don't think it's even motorway standard from Warsaw to the Belarus border. I think some of it might be, but I'd find it hard to believe that it would be motorway standard the whole way.

luchar · Post by **luchar** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 15:40

From Warsaw to the border, it isn't even a dual carriageway the whole way. And there isn't even a motorway to link Warsaw with Germany. It's supposed to be the A2, but the new gov't just voted a law which will cancel most of the private concessions on the motorways, which will depend on the state for construction and maintenance.