International Cultures

Mexico’s Highway Network: Bringing The Country Closer

Are you looking forward to spend your holidays to Mexico? If so, you are going to want to drop by interesting sites around Mexico, not just in its capital Mexico City. Well, that is already taken cared of. Going around the country is quite easy thanks to an extensive roadway network.

Mexico’s roads reach all populated places in the country, reaching out into its interior and central parts. In fact, Mexico has 366,095 kilometers of road of which 116,802 kilometers are asphalted. There are 10,474 kilometers of multi-lane freeways: 9,544 kilometers of it are highways with four lines while the rest have 6 or more lanes. This road network is the most extensive in Latin America.

To make it easier for motorists to drive to places, Mexican highways are labelled by the types of access and the number of lanes. Undivided or divided two-lane highways, which outnumber multi-lane highways, are called carreteras. Speed limits in carretas are determined by terrain conditions.

Freeways that have four or more lanes, with restricted or unrestricted access, are named autopistas. They connect the major cities in Mexico—Mexico City, Monterrey, and Guadalajara. In autopistas, motorists can drive speeds up to 110 kilometers per hour. Buses and trucks, which are bigger and slower, speed around 95 kilometers per hour. Autopistas are generally toll-roads where you need to pay a certain fee, or toll. The toll includes some type of traveler’s insurance in the event of an accident occurring within the freeway. Toll expressways typically have phone booths, water wells, and emergency braking ramps at short intervals for people to use.

Just like in many nations with a freeway system, Mexican highways are labelled with 1 to 3-digit numbers. North-to-south highways are labelled with odd numbers while east-to-west highways are labelled with even numbers. Toll expressways typically run parallel to a free road, thus, they are assigned with the same number the free road is identified with, with the addition of a letter “D.” For example, the two-lane highway that connects Mexico City to Puebla is labelled as MX 150 while the 6-lane toll expressway beside it is MX 150D.

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