Roads in Kuwait

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Roads in Kuwait are mostly paved. The road network is about 6,500 km long, with roughly 4,900 km paved. In 2000 there were about 552,400 passenger cars and 167,800 commercial vehicles. Speed limits vary by road: on the major rings 5th, 6th and 7th, the limit is 120 km/h; on rings 2nd, 3rd and 4th it is 80 km/h; on the 1st ring it is 100 km/h. Speed cameras are installed on all major roads, highways, ring roads and near traffic lights. The government spends around 450 million USD on these cameras. All roads are toll-free.

Highways are numbered. The main horizontal east–west highways are ring roads and use single-digit numbers, while the main vertical north–south highways use numbers that are multiples of 10. Route 25, comprising Gulf Street, Blajat Street, and Taawon Street, is a prominent coastal road that starts in Kuwait City and runs along the southern coast to the boundary between Hawalli and Mubarak Al-Kabir at the 6th Ring Road, with a speed limit of 80 km/h. Other highways intersecting the ring roads include Highways 50, 55, 60, 70 (Salmi Road), 80 (the so-called Death Highway), 85 and 801. Highway 51, also known as Subhan al-Maqwa Road, connects King Faisal Road (50) to the 6th and 7th Ring Roads. Highway 35, or Cairo Street, runs from Kuwait City to the Baghdad Roundabout in Salmiya. Many ring roads connect to these highways.