How much is the toll road from German border to Prague on the E55 D8?
Yes, you need to buy a sticker to drive on motorways in the Czech Republic. These are called "dálniční známka" in Czech and the cheapest one costs 310kč and lasts for 10 days. You can buy them at service stations near the border in Germany as well as at any Czech service station.
What is "highways" in German?
Autobahn. There are some interesting facts about the Autobahn (German highways) too.They are one of the bench marks of highway quality in the world.Autobahns have many sections that have no speed limit unlike any other highways in other countries of the world.Autobahns have existed even before the 1950.Autobahns played a role in WW2.Autobahns in Germany does not have toll unlike many other countries.
Why are there no tolls in Germany?
The Autobahn network is owned by the country.Germans pay vehicle registration taxes. This pays for road maintanence and building. This is the simple explanation. It's all about to change - foreign personal vehicles don't yet pay, which is sometimes considered an issue, as this transit traffic causes plenty of wear on these roads too. Hence, there's already truck tolls, and there will be personal vehicle tolls too, in the near future.
When was the first motorway built and where?
According to http://www.ciht.org.uk/motorway/stats.htm The first motorway to be opened in the UK was the 8¼ mile long M6 Preston By-pass. It was opened on the 5th December 1958 by the then Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan. However, the M6 Preston By-pass wasn't the first motorway in Europe. Germany's Autobahnen (literally: motorways) formed the first limited-access, high-speed road network in the world, with the first section from Frankfurt am Main to Darmstadt opening in 1935. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Autobahnen However, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostrade_of_Italy Italy was the very first country in the world to start building motorways (Italian: autostrade), i.e. fast roads reserved to motor vehicles. The "Milano-Laghi" motorway (connecting Milan to Varese) was devised by Piero Puricelli, a civil engineer and entrepreneur, who received the first authorizations to build a "public utility" fast road in 1921, and completed the construction (back then one lane per direction was enough) between 1924 and 1926.
How would you compare the German Autobahn to the Italian autostrade as a driving experience?
Autobahn and autostrada are what their respective countries call a highway. Basically, that is all they are: highways.That being said, there are sections – and let me emphasize they are only sections – of the German autobahns that have no posted speed limits. That being said, it is recommended not to exceed 160 kilometers on those sections; which are constantly exceeded by some drivers. One thing that works well under the circumstances is that most German drivers are courteous and stay to the right, allowing the speed demons to pass on the left (of course, if you aren’t going fast of enough they have no hesitation to flash their lights at you to get you to move over, or, to tailgate until you get out of their way.) Trucks for the most part, stay to the right; however, it is very painful to be behind a truck driver who decides to pass another truck – as they just exceed the truck driver in the right lane by five kilometers – on a good day. Also, German drivers – mostly – believe in using the zipper technique when lanes go away. With the exception of the larger cities like Stuttgart or Hamburg, traffic seems to move all the time.Italy – is chaotic to drive in. First of all they really don’t want traffic to go faster than 120 kilometers (in Germany the unposted speed is supposed to not exceed 130, but, what can I say – they build fast cars and they drive them fast.) Italy placed speed cameras every few kilometers, so you really can’t go faster than the posted speed limit. In addition, they seem to have tolls everywhere – unlike the German autobahns which have no tolls. This makes a trip on the autostrada kind of expensive – anywhere from ten Euros to over a hundred depending on where you are driving and which road you are going.Lastly, Italian drivers are unpredictable. Once when driving in Italy I came to a slow-up, when I finally passed the lady who caused the slow-up I discovered she had decided she was going to miss her exit since she was in the center lane, so she stopped until someone would allow her to move to the right to the exit lane. She had her signal on, at least.Another driver had a manual entitled “How to drive a rental car in Italy” open on the seat next to him. I couldn’t help but think that it was too late.
What happens if you don't have money at a toll booth?
you can be honest and tell the cashier. they will send a bill in the mail. otherwise, if u try and just run through the booth, they will take a very clear photo of your car and charge u a big fee. so what happens is u will have to pay a fee, either big or small depending on whether youre honest or not
When is taking toll roads worth the cost...?
Taking the toll road is good for me when the roads are bad from ice and snow because the toll roads are usually plowed the best.
Why does Germany have no-speed-limit-roads like the Autobahn when the country is small and can be crossed in less than a day at normal speeds?
Originally it was probably designed to help the auto industry, one of the country’s most important.Actually, most of the Autobahn has speed limits, near big cities and within the innumerable construction zones. So, if you average it out, it’s no faster than driving the 70 mph speed limit from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, for instance. There are also practical limits—if you drive some of the real curvy parts in rain or snow, good luck to you. I only rent cars with AWD and disc brakes in Germany for that reason.My father was a construction manager on the Autobahn sections in the Rhineland. When I first took him driving in Nevada on the arrow-straight highway 15, he was almost in tears. He said, “If only we had been able to build the Autobahn this straight. But no, we had to curve around every church, every graveyard, every memorial.”I asked him why the Autobahn was not banked to support higher speeds—IMHO, you can drive comfortably at around 220kph, but after that you have to really concentrate. He told me it was designed in the 1970s for the fastest cars at the time (such as the Mercedes Benz 450SL I own), which went around 230kph. He said they never dreamed of a day when ordinary Volkswagens could go faster than that.He loved cars, one of his early ones, the Tatra, upon which the Porsche and VW were based (according to Ferry Porsche) is in the attached picture. He got it past 200kph in the very early days of the Autobahn, which got lots of attention.