Are you looking forward to enjoy your holidays to Mexico? Surely, you are going to want to drop by various sites around Mexico, not just in its capital Mexico City. Well, you are in luck. Going around the country is relatively easy thanks to its extensive roadway network.
Mexico’s roads cover virtually all areas 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 cemented. There are 10,474 kilometers of multi-lane expressways: 9,544 kilometers of it are highways with four lines while the rest have 6 or more lanes. The network is the largest in Latin America.
To make it more convenient for motorists to drive to places, Mexican highways are classified by the types of access and the number of lanes. Undivided or divided two-lane highways, which which comprise the core of the road network, are called carreteras. Speed limits in carretas are determined by terrain conditions.
Freeways that comprise four or more lanes, with restricted or unrestricted access, are named autopistas. These long and large roads link the major cities in Mexico—Mexico City, Monterrey, and Guadalajara. In autopistas, you can coast up to an average of 110 kilometers an hour. Buses and trucks, which are bigger and slower, coast around at 95 kilometers an hour. Autopistas are typically toll-roads where you are expected to pay a certain fee, or toll. The toll includes some sort of traveler’s insurance in the event of an accident occurring within the freeway. Toll expressways usually have phone booths, water wells, and emergency braking ramps at short intervals for people to use.
Just like in other countries with a freeway system, Mexican highways are identified by 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 often run parallel to a free road, therefore, they are assigned with the same number the free road is identified with, with the addition of a letter “D.” For instance, 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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