Expressway 120 (South Korea)

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	Expressway 120 in South Korea
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	Basic data
Operator:	Korea Expressway Corporation
Start of the street:	Incheon
End of street:	Seoul
Overall length:	24 km
of which in operation:	24 km
Thu ( province ):	Incheon; Gyeonggi-do; Seoul;

The Expressway 120 ( kor. 경인 고속 도로 , Gyeongin Gosok Doro) is an expressway in South Korea . The highway connects the city of Incheon with the capital Seoul . It is 24 kilometers long.

Street description

The highway begins at the port of Incheon, a city of 2.6 million people. It has 2x3 lanes here and runs through Incheon first in the north and then later branching off to the east. The route then runs through the north of the city and on the east side of Incheon crosses Expressway 100 , the Seoul ring road . The highway then runs through Bucheon , a suburb of Incheon. The highway has 2x4 lanes east of Expressway 100. The Bucheon metropolitan area merges seamlessly with that of Seoul. The freeway ends on the west side of Seoul near an urban freeway that leads into the city.

history

Construction of the motorway began on March 24, 1967, and the first section was opened on December 21, 1968 to relieve the port. In 1969 and 1973 the second part was opened, creating a continuous highway through Incheon. The expansion project from Bucheon to Seoul was completed in 1992 and 1993, so that the highway was expanded to 2x4 lanes. On December 17, 1998, the section at Incheon was expanded to 2x3 lanes.

Opening dates of the motorway

from	to	length	date
Gajwa	Seoul	18 km	December 21, 1968
Incheon	Gajwa	6 km	07/21/1969

Traffic volume

No data are yet available on the volume of traffic.

Expansion of the roadways

from	to	length	Lanes
Incheon	Expressway 100	18 km	2x3
Expressway 100	Seoul	6 km	2x4

Web links

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (Korean)
Wegenwiki (Dutch)