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Title: Heck of a road!
Post by: BazaJT on 07 December 2014, 18:26:11
The widest road in the world the Monumental Axis in Brazil is wide enough and has space for 160 cars to drive side by side.Imagine the cones to narrow that down to one lane for miles on end while no one works on the resurfacing!
Title: Re: Heck of a road!
Post by: The Sheriff on 07 December 2014, 18:34:28
The widest road in the world the Monumental Axis in Brazil is wide enough and has space for 160 cars to drive side by side.Imagine the cones to narrow that down to one lane for miles on end while no one works on the resurfacing!
Why that wide?  :-\
Title: Re: Heck of a road!
Post by: 05omegav6 on 07 December 2014, 18:42:35
The widest road in the world the Monumental Axis in Brazil is wide enough and has space for 160 cars to drive side by side.Imagine the cones to narrow that down to one lane for miles on end while no one works on the resurfacing!
Why that wide?  :-\
A side effect of overburning of the rainforest probably... if in doubt, tarmac it ;D
Title: Re: Heck of a road!
Post by: BazaJT on 07 December 2014, 18:44:38
Don't know why they made it that wide,but makes for one heck of a traffic jam!
Title: Re: Heck of a road!
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 07 December 2014, 18:58:55
The widest road in the world the Monumental Axis in Brazil is wide enough and has space for 160 cars to drive side by side.Imagine the cones to narrow that down to one lane for miles on end while no one works on the resurfacing!
Why that wide?  :-\

Perhaps they all drive Daewoo's and know they don't have enough power to overtake anything....so they get a lane each  :-\ ;D
Title: Re: Heck of a road!
Post by: The Sheriff on 07 December 2014, 19:05:16
The widest road in the world the Monumental Axis in Brazil is wide enough and has space for 160 cars to drive side by side.Imagine the cones to narrow that down to one lane for miles on end while no one works on the resurfacing!
Why that wide?  :-\

Perhaps they all drive Daewoo's and know they don't have enough power to overtake anything....so they get a lane each  :-\ ;D
Nowt wrong with a daewoo, lad. Buy cheap, hammer it, throw it away. I've had it over a year now, if I get another three, I'll be happy. Reckon I'll have  put about 50000 miles on it by then.
Title: Re: Heck of a road!
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 07 December 2014, 19:37:50
Are you sure it is a road?

It probably is a runway in it's part time! ;D ;D ;)
Title: Re: Heck of a road!
Post by: Jimbob on 08 December 2014, 08:05:48
Theyve one like that in Ireland as well......Its only 15 meters long though ;)
Title: Re: Heck of a road!
Post by: chrisgixer on 08 December 2014, 08:15:19
Yes a quick google reveals that the central reservation is included. ::) ;D
Title: Re: Heck of a road!
Post by: tigers_gonads on 08 December 2014, 10:53:06
Are you sure it is a road?

It probably is a runway in it's part time! ;D ;D ;)


That could be closer to the truth then many people realise Liz considering what the Brazilian Air Force have just bought and how its home nation operate it   ;)
Title: Re: Heck of a road!
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 08 December 2014, 18:26:56
Its a myth, the only thing record breaking about it is the width of the central reservation  ;)

Ooohhh, xmas smilies, nice  :y :P
Title: Re: Heck of a road!
Post by: Broomies Mate on 08 December 2014, 19:47:52
I've driven on a road near Pumakale in Turkey which, way up in the mountains, is used as an Emergency Runway when necessary.

Very odd driving along, then suddenly, all the markings for the runway appear along with rubber from the aircraft's wheels.

No central reservation on that one, though!  ;)
Title: Re: Heck of a road!
Post by: scimmy_man on 09 December 2014, 12:00:57
The autobarns (sp) in germany were intended to be used as makeshift runways in case of a war.
Title: Re: Heck of a road!
Post by: 05omegav6 on 09 December 2014, 12:43:16
Nah, they were built qs a quick and easy way to move troops and equipment :y

After the war, the Americans improved the network so that they might drive tqnks straight to Berlin and beyond...
Title: Re: Heck of a road!
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 09 December 2014, 18:42:04
Nah, they were built qs a quick and easy way to move troops and equipment :y

After the war, the Americans improved the network so that they might drive tqnks straight to Berlin and beyond...

Partially correct, as in fact the autobahn building programme had been started before Hitler came to power by the  Weimar Republic, and before the path to war, but the Fuhrer took the credit and expanded the network. ;)