Directorate presents exhibit on twenty years of motorway expansion
Starting today at various public locations and online at www.dalniceza20let.cz, the Czech Road and Motorway Directorate will be exhibiting a series of photographs capturing the state of Czech motorways between 1989 and 2009. The opening ceremony will take place at the Ministry of Transport, after which the exhibit will travel to various shopping centers with the aim of showing just how much the country’s motorway network has changed over the past twenty years.
The attached maps show the motorway network on 31 December 1989 and on 31 December 2009, and illustrate the enormous expansion in the motorway network.
The exhibit also includes ten display panels with photographs of locations along motorways where “life” has changed the most over the past two decades – for instance, the D5 section from Prague to Pilsen and Nuremberg, the D47 in northern Moravia, the D8 from Prague to Ústí nad Labem and Dresden, an expanded D1 outside of Prague, and other locations.
An information panel provides construction facts and information on the individual road sections. Exhibit visitors will learn, among other things, how many kilometers of motorway have been put into operation over the past twenty years, which regions saw the most intense construction activities, and in which years the most construction took place.
The exhibit will run for several months, not only at the Ministry of Transport but also at shopping centers in Prague and other regional towns. Information on the exhibit’s travels can be found at www.dalniceza20let.cz.
