Highways in the Czech Republic

Highways in the Czech Republic are no longer divided into motorways and expressways as the category of expressways (rychlostní silnice) has been abolished by 31 December 2015. Most of expressways were classified as fully fledged motorways, while some sections of the former expressways were suspended to common dual carriageway roads with a traffic sign of a road for motorcars (silnice pro motorová vozidla) whose speed limit is of up to 110 km/h, as they do not comply with the standards of motorway. This concerned especially the expressway R35 between Liberec and Turnov which has been classified as of 1 January 2016 as a road for motorcars (with an exceptional speed limit of up to 130 km/h).

The motorways are managed by the state-owned Road and Motorway Directorate of the Czech Republic – ŘSD ČR, established in 1997. The ŘSD currently (2017) manages and maintains 1,250 km of motorways (dálnice), whose speed limit is of 130 km/h or 80 mph (or 80 km/h or 50 mph within a town). The present-day national motorway network is due to be of about 2,000 km before 2030.

In 2017, for motorcars with a maximum authorized mass of up to 3.5 tonnes, motorways in the Czech Republic (with some exceptions, see below) are subject to a time-based fee (časový poplatek) paid with the purchase of a windscreen toll vignette (dálniční známka or dálniční kupón) with a validity of either 10 days (310 CZK), 1 month (440 CZK) or 1 year (1500 CZK).

Generally said, a motorway road sign means that a toll vignette (windscreen label) is obligatory (usually not immediately from the border on). Only sections not subject to vignette are designated with an additional road sign (see below).

A road sign informing of the motorway section not subject to vignette (toll label) duty for motorcars ≤ 3.5t (usually placed under the road sign for motorway )

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