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Highway Feature of the Week: 9 de Julio Ave & Autopista 25 de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

4 May 2008 · Comments Off

We’ll stay in South America for another week, and move a bit to the south, to Buenos Aires:

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(View in Google Maps)

When I first spotted this in Google Maps, I was struck by the similarity (at first glance anyway) to Chicago’s Circle interchange.

The north-south road portrayed above is the 9 de Julio Avenue, a broad multi-carriageway surface parkway in the urban center of Buenos Aires.   The east-west freeway is the Autopista 25 de Mayo, which performs a similar function in an east-west orientation, but as a controlled-access facility and with less landscaping.

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