Driving on D0 motorway, the outer ringroad of the city of Prague in Czechia. Join my Patreon or tip me on Ko-fi: / roadsofeuropeverreme ko-fi.com/road...
I like your videos. And the bridges between Cholupický tunel and Šabatka ecouduct had originally to be a part of an another motorway, which had to lead to Komořany. But in the end it wasn't realised. Generally, there are many unfinished things on this part of ring road, but we could be glad that the ringroad itself was released. The new sections which have to be built in future have pretty big problems because of the long approval processes, complaints from the enviromentalists and sometimes even from the majors of particular districts and municipalities.
Traffic in Prague is such a mess. Each generation of politicians (local or governmental) has completely different approach to solving it, they do not cooperate and are being corrupted by builders, so they allow construction of houses and warehouses in the town and it's surroundings without proper transportation available to them. These same politicians also allowed for bureaucracy to grow to such extremes that formal preparations (all the paperwork) for one single road construction can take up to 15 years before they start actually digging, and we're not even accounting for eco-terorists and NIMBYs, who file complaints against every single piece of paperwork issued, making this process even 30+ years long. In fact, most of our roads were built by totalitarian communist politicians between 1948 and 1989, as they didn't need any permits, didn't have to care about ecology, urbanism, norms, etc. (Hell, they could even demolish your own house if they wanted to build a road through it!). This was not any good either, because they destroyed so many cities urbanism (not only in Prague), didn't account for huge increase in traffic that came in the 90s and after year 2000 (when we became the cheap transit country in the heart of Europe), and made the society very car-centric. The reason we're still able to at least build something are those sweet EU funds (without them we won't build anything)..
I have bad memories with this road, because I was trying record this city ring, but I stuck in traffic jam for 2 hours or even more. Reason? Road works on Běchovice JCT.
Great video and the chat! This might be a LONG comment so read carefully. Did you know some freeways and tollways in US has a unsigned highway route number? Here's some example: Kentucky: Western Kentucky Parkway (KY Route 9001), Bluegrass Parkway (KY Route 9002), Purchase Parkway (KY Route 9003), Pennyrile Parkway (KY Route 9004, removed and was replaced with I-69 and I-169 in 2017), Audubon Parkway (KY 9005), Hal Rogers Parkway (KY Route 9006), William H. Natcher Parkway (KY Route 9007, removed and replaced with I-165 in 2019), Cumberland Parkway (KY 9008), and Bert T. Combs Mountain Parkway (KY Route 9009) New York: Many of parkways in New York CIty area has a unsigned reference route such as FDR Drive with unsigned route New York State Route 907L (NY 907L), Harlem River Drive (NY 907P), Belt Parkway, (NY 907C, NY 907D, NY 907B, and NY 907A), Grand Central Parkway (NY 907M) and so on. *Palisades Interstate Parkway (NY 987C in New York) New Jersey: Atlantic City Expressway (Route 446), Golden State Parkway (Route 444), New Jersey Turnpike (Route 700, only from Pennsville Township to Mansfield Township), *Palisades Interstate Parkway (Route 445 in New Jersey) Florida: Florida's Turnpike (FL 91), Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike (FL 821), and Selmon Expressway (FL 618A), only on express lane, the SR 618 is still signed) *Palisades Interstate Parkway runs both states in New Jersey and New York. It has unsigned Route 445 in New Jersey, and NY 987C in New York. Georgia: Has a unsigned route in 400s in all Interstate highway. SR means state route: I-75 - SR 401 I-20 - SR 402 I-85 - SR 403 I-16 - SR 404 I-95 - SR 405 I-59 - SR 406 I-285 - SR 407 I-475 - SR 408 I-24 - SR 409 I-185 - SR 411 I-675 - SR 413 I-520 - SR 415 I-575 - SR 417 I-985 - SR 419 I-516 - SR 421