![Highway begin in Cyprus](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Highway_begin_in_Cyprus.png)
Since the arrival of the first motor cars on the island in 1907,
Cyprus
Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is ge ...
has developed a modern road network. According to 2002 statistics, the road network in the Republic of Cyprus-administered areas of Cyprus consists of about 7,206 km of paved and 4,387 km of unpaved roads. Although the first motorway in Cyprus,
A1, was completed as recently as October 1985, the country already has the most motorway km per capita (36.8 km /100,000 inhabitants) among all
European Union
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members.
There are no toll paying roads in Cyprus to date.
Maintenance
The
Public Works Department
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See also
* Public works
* Ministry or Board of Public Works, the imperial Chinese ministry overseeing public projects from the Tang ...
of the
Ministry of Communications and Works is responsible for the maintenance, improvement and construction of motorways, the majority of rural and interurban road network and the main urban roads. The Municipalities are responsible for the secondary and local urban roads; the District Administration Authorities are responsible for the paved and unpaved district (tertiary) roads and village roads. The
Forestry Department is responsible for most unpaved roads in forest areas, this is in order to accommodate the administration and protection of forests.
The
Turkish invasion of 1974 radically changed the program of road development and created new priorities in order to cover the augmented needs in the government controlled areas, where 80% of the Cyprus population and the greatest portion of development had concentrated.
Under these circumstances New Road Development Schemes were promoted, which were partially financed by foreign Financing Organizations. Under these development projects new 4 lane
motorways
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were constructed and more are on their way as follows:
Cyprus motorways list
![Cyprus Motorway diagram](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Cyprus_Motorway_diagram.png)
The highway network is continuously developed. The first section of the
A9 Nicosia - Astromeritis Motorway between
Kokkinotrimithia
Kokkinotrimithia ( el, Κοκκινοτριμιθιά []) is a village located west of Nicosia, Cyprus, close to the Green Line (Cyprus), Green Line. It has an exit along the A9 motorway (Cyprus), A9 motorway. In 2011, it had 4,077 inhabitants.
R ...
and
Akaki
Akaki ( Oromo: ''Aqaaqii'') is a woreda in Oromia Region, Ethiopia. Part of the Oromia Special Zone Surrounding Finfinne, Akaki is bordered on the southwest by the Southwest Shewa Zone, on the west by Sebeta Hawas, on the northwest by Addis Aba ...
has been completed, whereas the rest is under study. Also the upgrading of the
Limassol Junctions and the
A1 Nicosia - Limassol Motorway to a 6 lane road between the
Strovolos Junction and
Alampra
Alampra or Alambra ( gr, Αλάμπρα) is a village located in the Nicosia District of Cyprus
Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatoli ...
Interchange are completed.
The following are under design:
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*
A7 Paphos - Polis Motorway is promoted through the D.B.F.O. method (Design, Build, Finance, Operate).
Preliminary and feasibility studies are conducted for the:
*
Nicosia Ring road
*
A8 Limassol - Saittas Motorway
*
Astromeritis -
Evrychou Motorway
*
Nicosia -
Klirou Motorway
Road network categories and numbering
Roads and Motorways in Cyprus can be classified into 5 main categories:
* Motorways, 2 lanes per direction, free of any
at-grade intersections. They are the most important road network on the island, and the letter "A" is used on their official numbering system. Motorways usually run parallel to the same-number "B class" intercity roads that they replaced and sometimes these roads are even transformed to Motorways (e.g.
A3 Motorway and
B3 road). While there is no formal announcement about the numbering of new motorways under construction and under planning, it's anticipated that they will have the same number as their current main road. So
Limassol - Saittas Motorway will be coded A8 because A is the letter of Motorways and 8 because it will "replace"
B8 road.
*Main Roads, Intercity roads, mostly one lane per direction, except sometimes in residential areas up to two lanes. B is the letter used in their official numbering system, with a number up to two digits long. Most of them have been replaced with their same-number Motorway (e.g. Traffic from
Nicosia to
Limassol
Limassol (; el, Λεμεσός, Lemesós ; tr, Limasol or ) is a city on the southern coast of Cyprus and capital of the district with the same name. Limassol is the second largest urban area in Cyprus after Nicosia, with an urban population ...
now uses the
A1 Motorway
A1, A-1, A01 or A.1. may refer to:
Education
* A1, the Basic Language Certificate of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
* Language A1, the former name for "Language A: literature", one of the IB Group 1 subjects
* A1, a ...
while in the past
B1 road was the main connection between these cities)."B type" roads can be also main avenues within the city limits.
* Roads, secondary road network, mostly connecting rural areas. One lane per direction, always paved. They use the letter "E" in their formal numbering system and they are 3 digits long. First digit is the serial number of the main road that the secondary road begins from (or the secondary road, that begins at another secondary road which begins at a main road etc.) and the last two digits is the serial number of the road. Smaller digits where the main road begins, larger ones near main road's ending.
* Local roads, when coded during the 80's one lane and often dirt roads, today almost completely paved, and waiting for letter re - evaluation. They use "F" in the official coding system, and they are counted in the same way as "E"s are. There is no "E" with the same number as an "F".
* Unclassified roads. They can be "B" and "E" type. The case here is that these roads were constructed after the road network was numbered, so they will remain without a serial number and road signs will remain with gaps until the next road numbering evaluation.
Road safety
Cyprus currently holds a worse than average
road safety
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record in the
European Union
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Pre-2008 data: European Commission Road Safety Country Profile report for Cyprus. Post-2008 data: Cyprus' National Open Data Portal
Data entered from 2008 onwards does not include deaths or fatalities.
References
Part of this article was copied from Cyprus's Press and Information office multimedia software "Aspects of Cyprus".
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