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Italian:
“automobile road”,
Plural:
Autostrade
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autostrada, national Italian expressway system built by the government as toll roads. The first, from Venice to Turin, was begun in 1924; construction was continuing in the early 1980s. The autostrada has three undivided lanes on a 33-foot (10-metre) roadway with 3-ft shoulders. Access is limited, with restrictions on commercial vehicles.

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Autobahn The Autobahn south of Nürnberg, Germany.

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Also known as: Autobahnen
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German:
“automobile road”
Plural:
Autobahnen
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road
expressway

Autobahn, high-speed, limited-access highway, the basis of the first modern national expressway system. Planned in Germany in the early 1930s, the Autobahnen were extended to a national highway network (Reichsautobahnen) of 2,108 km (1,310 miles) by 1942. West Germany embarked on an ambitious reconstruction of the system after World War II, and after German reunification in 1989 the West German system (Bundesautobahnen) absorbed the East German system. The current length of the entire network is more than 12,000 km (7,200 miles), making it the third largest system in the world, after those of the United States and China.

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