Pan-Keltian Highway
The Pan-Keltian Highway is a transportation megaproject being built by the government of Alduria-Wechua to build a series of highways on its Keltian territory to better connect the Alduro-Wechua regions of the Wechua Nation, Santander, and Valencia. The highways also aimed to better connect the new capital city, Cárdenas, with the rest of the country. The project also repairs, expands, and modernizes the existing system of roads in the Wechua Nation, called the Qhapaq Ñan.
The project shall also include the "Keltian Marine Highway", a ferry service to connect Santander and Valencia over water. The marine component of the highway shall be operated by KelMAR, a joint-venture by the federal government and Kerularios & Company. The project is part of the New Prosperity Plan. The highway will be designed in similarity with the Pan-Euran Highway.
The project has been designed to enable the connection of the entire highway to other Keltian nations, in hopes of better connecting the country with the rest of the continent. Before 1700 AN, no realistic plans to connect the highway project with Keltian neighbors were announced until The Hexarchy managed to secure and build infrastructure for a safe land border with the Wechuan portion of Nouvelle Alexandrie, which arose from the Alduro-Wechua Federation growing into a larger state. The southern half of the route traverses the mountainous central Wechua regions and the Rodinia river, which posed formidable engineering challenges. The northern half of the highway runs through The Hexarchy, with final stretches of the highway under construction to connect with the Dark Berry Islands to the far west and with Lysstyrer to the far north of the continent.
The highway will be fitted with sophisticated electronic surveillance measures and advanced vehicle collision absorption measures, with The Hexarchy's government gradually following suit with plans of their own. Due to the special relationship now existing between The Hexarchy and New Alexandria, border controls between the two countries are light, making land travel all the way to parts of Apollonia finally a realm of possibility, despite the extreme engineering challenges that will no doubt arise during construction.
