Highway A1 (Tseng)

Highway A1 (Chinese: A1國道) also called Highway 1 or just A1, is a major highway in the Tseng Republic. It connects the country from east to west.

History
Before the 1960s, there weren't any highways in Tseng. To get from one city to another people had to go on the State Highways to get to their destination, which was very time-consuming, as the State Highways often went through the middle of busy cities and towns, and outside of settlements, roads were poorly maintained. In fact, the road from Huanzhou to Lizhong was a dirt road through mountains, and the safest way was to go along the coast to Qishan, then north to Lizhong.

After getting elected for a third term in 1954 Pierre Huang-li promised the building of a highway that would connect Tseng, however he was assassinated before he could do anything.

In 1963, the then-president, Frederik Bao ordered the construction of a new highway, and he pulled many people, most of them businessmen from Tseng City, to build the road. The training the people received was poor, and due to the Luanzheng there were many strikes, fights, and even deaths. By 1969, the only part built was from Tseng City to Jinglan, a town immediately west of the Tseng City-Touzhou border.

In the 1970s, due to the Wanxia Miracle, the highway was quickly built. In 1972, when it reached Pushan, it was given the designation of A1 and was upgraded to a freeway, and in 1977, only 5 years later, it reached Huanzhou.

The highway reached Lizhong in 1985. On May 28, 1992, the road from Tseng City to Huanzhou became a freeway, and almost the entire highway except for a portion in Meihua reached freeway standards in September 2006.

Tseng City-Capital
Highway A1 begins at an interchange with Highway A5 in Tseng City. The highway curves through skyscrapers and buildings, intersecting with Tseng Airport Highway as it passes through the capital. Houses and buildings become less numerous and farmland and plains appears as A1 exits Tseng City.

Touzhou
The highway reaches Pushan but very little of the city is seen because the highway bypasses most of Pushan. As A1 goes in a southeasterly direction farmland is slowly replaced by forests.

Meishan
A fairly uninteresting part of Highway A1, the terrain starts to get more hilly as trees are more numerous.

Nankou
The highway continues from the Meishan-Nankou border to Huanzhou. At Huanzhou, the highway passes through the northern section of the city, with A1-1, the alternate (and former) route to Huanzhou passing through downtown. The highway travels down the Callandres Coast and towards the Arbre-Rose border.

Arbre-Rose
A fairly uninteresting part of Highway A1, the terrain starts to get more hilly as the highway enters the Van Wittek Mountains.

Meihua
The rest stop 130 km (80 mi) after the Meihua border is the last stop with services. The highway travels for 102 km (63 mi) as a two-lane highway before being upgraded to a freeway at Lizhong, and the highway ends at an interchange in Douet, a satellite town in the northern outskirts of Lizhong.