Highways in Slovakia

[Chris]

Slovakia has opened its first eight lane motorway, the D1 northeast of Bratislava. It was originally built in 1975 as a four lane motorway, expanded to six lanes in 2010 by using the shoulder, and now rebuilt due to the construction of the new D4 interchange.

The eight lane section is very short though.

The signage seen here uses TERN (Trans European Road Network), a font that was originally developed for usage on VMSs. Austria and Slovakia have adopted it for motorway / freeway signage.

Slovakia has been pretty active to replace all its motorway signage with newer standard TERN signs. I've visited the country twice in recent years and there are not many signs in 'Universal Grotesk' from Czechoslovak times remaining on the motorway system. The secondary roads still have a lot of them.

[Road Hog]

I think I'm more impressed with Bratislava's skyline than anything else.

[Plutonic Panda]

That looks like some pretty nice construction quality!