The expressways of Miklasgard is a mixture of orange and green pasta

The city uses two types of expressways. They all use US numbering system, where north-south freeways are odd-numbered, and east-west are even. Long distance, major expressways have numbers divisible by 5. Expressway branches going through a city and rejoining the expressway are numbered with a three-digit number, the first digit being even, the last two being the number of the original expressway. Non-loop branches have an odd digit in their three-digit number.

Freeways are numbered on orange shields, are free or have minimal flat-fee tolls, usually for crossing a major bridge, a tunnel or the Mielborg-Yngeborg-Kingstad Royal Territory.

Expressways proper are numbered with green shields, and are always straighter, wider, have more lanes and higher speed limits. Many of these expressways are military, since the military is the original inventor of the concept. Such expressways always have the "YIELD TO MILITARY VEHICLES. STAY IN THE RIGHT LANES" signs posted at every entrance ramp. These expressways are have distance-based toll system. As with all toll systems in Attland, they automatically scan vehicle's license plates.

Some freeeways turn into expressways as 55 outside the city, or when turning into a shortcut or a tunnel, as is the case with 10, 22, 24, 314.

Some of the expressways have freeway branches, as 69's 369, 6's 106 and 306, 51's 151.

Miklasgard's subway system is actually a railroad network

The region's suburban railroad (similar to German S-bahn), intercity railroads, broad gauge (7-foot) the 770 Express network, the dual track, regular subway, the monorail (also similar to a guideway rail), and the suspended monorail system IS the city's rapid transport system which works like a railroad network of a medium-sized European country.

Miklasgard's places of interest also include parks

Miklasgard municipality and the Queen have stipulated any body of water inside the city should have vegetation covering at least 40% of its shore length. This rule, plus the requirement that there must be parks for every 50,000 people, make Miklasgard's urban sprawl very green. Many of museums are also required to have a green zone, as the Green Belt separating Miklasgard City from the city of Karolinga (see the green band in the north).

Small river that roars (with industry)

This is where Balgrey River widens into its minidelta entering Yahalma River in Miklasgard. The delta in the late 19th century has been made into a Balgrahaven (Belgravia) port, an impressively huge river multi-modal port served by a cargo airport, hundred of railroad tracks, truck terminals, transshipment barge docks, and manufacturer's private docks - like auto assembly plants, chemical, aircraft, steel and other industries. Balgrahaven neighborhood's residential high rises are in the backdrop. These are modest test buildings for what is now called superblocks, or skyblocks, each a home to 4-10 thousand residents. The tower on the left is an apartment house -residential hotel. - Now I stand corrected - it is an automated parking tower, the photo below is the view of an interior.

A cozy park along a service drive

This is a part of the mile-long Terrace Park, snuggled between a freeway service drive and office buildings in the newly developed North Sheyokey (or Sheyokee), an impossible-made-possible area devoted to combining industrial, warehouse, high-tech, research and health care services.

Electric waterbuses of capital's canals

This is a painting of a canal scene on the supercity's Broya Canal in Brithwold. The freeway, a city train (subway), freeway access drives stuck to a side of a building, and the Brithwold Station's tower are all easily viewable. The star attraction, however, is the electric canal bus, which used to be a surface streetcar. Miklasgard dismantled all streetcar lines, and mounted most of the streetcars, especially vintage double deckers, on to small barge hulls. This resulted in pollution-free, quiet canal transportation. All of Miklasgard's canals are clean, despite the urban overcrowding.

This scene is on the canal in Miklasgard's Tokyo Gardens next door to Belgrahaven. The electric water (canal) bus, with the skyscrapers of Brunnholn in the background.

A pile of freeways

This is Glada River, looking at Brithwold from Broksness just past the Mielborg Island. Looks like Tokyo, doesn't it?

Backstreets of Miklasgard

Rooftop water tanks and parking problems is the typical theme of Miklasgard's backstreets.

Bulgra, Bulgreya, Balgrey, Balgrahaven, Belgravia

In the lnaguages of the island they call this river Bulgra, Bulgreya, Balgrey, and it gives the name to Miklasgard unique Japanese-Chinese industrial-suburban district of Balgrahaven. The British in their trading outpost tried to Anglicize it to Belgravia (just as Brunholn - Brown Hills, Brithwold - Bridewell, ect) Here the river is at the outskirts of Balgrahaven, offering its banks for use as a playground and picnic area.

Subway-suburban-commuter station and an intercity train

The already congested station serving the subway-suburban-commuter train mix, is overshadowed by an intercity express train station in eastern Broksness.

Express train and concrete

The express train, JAWS movie-like, is arriving at a station overshadowed by a city rail station and more high rises under construction.

A web of subways and highrises

Here is a picture of a station somewhere in Miklasgard's Brithwold multimillion district. Local suburban subway and suburban commuter train tracks merge into a futuristic web supervised by cement and glass structures.

The concrete mass of a giant city

This is Karlstad, near a former city airport that has been built over. All that is left of the airport is a five or six radiating roads vaguely outlining former runways.

The study in ellipses

These two buidlings are stylistically related and are located in Brunholn, facing each other, on the western half, or the right shores of the Yahalma-Glada Bay. The building below is a hotel, movie theater complex and restaurant center. The bottom building, designed by a top architects from Bombay, contains office suites, fast food and shopping venues.

How docile and peaceful a mountain river can get: a park on Glada River

Glada River may be a forbidding, wild and exotic in the mountains, but by the time it reaches Miklasgard City, it behaves as if it knows it is about to end up in the ocean. In the city it enjoys a few miles of wide open spaces along its banks, as here. This is a park on the river's northern side, on the outskirts close to Maunby, one of Miklasgard's multimillion-population suburb.

How a canal got lost in a supercity

This is a section of a canal in Brithwold that paralleling Glada River. Already lost in the cityscape, there is more of construction to be seen on the right.

Express train next to suburban tracks

This Shinkansen-looking express train is slowly making its way through the dense congestion of Miklasgard's Brithwold residential area. Next to its tracks is the suburban-city service train station. I can't remember which station that is.

Just a peek at an industrial megaport

This is just a tip of an industrial iceberg - a view of only one of the three container ports of Kayokee Megaport which is about 20 miles long, starting almost downtown Miklasgard and reaching the southern end of Kayokee. There port has its own dedicated cargo airport, DHL and Fedex terminals. The port is also home to over 100 industries, and includes over 200 miles of rail tracks (basically its own industrial rail network). The port did lose local barge transhipment service, as well as auto and aerospace manufacturing operations to the smaller river port of Balgrahaven, 15 miles up the Yahalma River. In April of 2006 the 3 million-resident Kayokee (together with the 3-million Teyerstan (Teyrastan), 6-million Maunby and 2 million Karolinga) became absorbed into the Miklasgard megasupercity.

Broksness River cityscape

Between East Broksness and New Broksness there is the canalized Broksness River that is built over with bridges carrying pedestrians, freeways, street traffic and several railroad tracks at once. The river branches off Yahalma Riover and flows into the Glada River. Research suggests that up until the 6 or 7th century CE this used to be the only path of Yahalma River, before what must have been a massive tidal surge, or a tsunami from a volcanic eruption in the Antilles, caused the rivers to overflow, directing Yahalma River into a longer, curving path that gives the river its sideways U-turn before heading straight into the Yahalma-Glada Bay. The Broksness river, defying all laws of hydrology as being the shortest and steepest, hence the easiest path for a river, has become a humble small canal.

Miklasgard: hydrofoils and bridges

Miklasgard means hundreds of bridges sporting bold curves and lines, and hydrofoils as well. This is a bridge across Glada River, looking south at Broya, the eastern outskirt.


The residential bridge spanning the Toyrastan Bay. One of the new hydrofoils.