Yudonian Highways

The National Yudonian Highway System, also called as Yudonian Highways since the times of the Empire, is the national, public and sometimes private network of roads on the country of Yudonia. It consists of more than 25 national roads/ highways/ motor roads and hundreds of regional and secondary roads.

Epistemology

When "The new Troy" was born from the ashes of the Trojan empire in the Isles, the new nation was called "Τροία το νέο" (Troía to néo). As it was invaded by the Roman Empire and conquested, the term "Troja Tonevas" started to be used to refer to the Isles, including Malta and Lampedusa after some time. The term would evolve into "Tojadonevas", and around C.720 it was officially called "Jadoneas" when included in some maps.
The term itself would evolve into "Jadonea" by the time of the early Kingdom of Aragon, and would later be used by the British government as "Yudonia", simplifying spelling and using the typical English prefix "-ia" that refers to "place of". By that time, the term "Yudos" or "Judos" was already being used by many to refer to locals, so the name fitted perfectly as "The place of Yudos".

History

Yudonian Highway system is said to exist as far back as the times of the Romans, when the "Via Troyana Internus" was funded. After that, as the name "yudonia" kept evolving until how we know it today, it is said that at least 8 major roads were created and built throughout the centuries to communicate the different major cities, the 2 most important having been the "Via Troyana Internus" (which kept its name even as the name of the Isles iself evolved) and the "Via Meridionale".
The first, "Via Troyana Internus", was a long eight-shaped road which communicated all the coastal towns of Isola, making a shape of "8" as the paths joined before crossing "The Bridge" which communicated both parts of the island.
The second one, "Via Meridionale", was a series of major roads and common boat paths between them which created what is known today as one of the very few semi-aquatic roads that the romans ever created. This one would essentially communicate all islands with each other while the first one would serve as the main road network of the region, communicating essentially all cities and some major pearl production sites.

Organization

Nowadays, Yudonia counts with a very unique road network, having a very unique pattern because of the unusual landscape and islands' shapes.
Overall, it is said that the network consists of a "Regional-based multi-focal lineal network", meaning that there is not a capital-based or geography-based network as might be the case of, for example, France or Spain, where the Capital city is the center of the network and roads go into an outgoing pattern, while other "circular" roads connect these "radial" ones, making the whole system.
Edinburgh's Plaza is located at the "Kilometer zero" of the network, from which all numbering starts, and from where roads are in a very good condition, but soon start to deteriorate as the distance to the Plaza gets bigger.

Road Layout

The system is made of: 27 "National Roads", 109 "Secondary Roads", and many, many "Local Roads"

Important National Roads

N1 - The first ever built road by the Empire, the road connected the former administrative capital of the island, Avile, with its preferential port, Plavit. The port would become a main settlement of merchants and overall bourgeois people, and would eventually become larger and more influential than the capital, becoming the new capital of the country by the 1800's.
N2 - Connecting the city of Plavit with the former Imperial Palace in Noicastle. It would become a road that connected the south of the island, from the capital city, to the north, diverging in Noicastle to create the "Northern Roadways"; a series of web-alike roads that connected all cities and ports north of the central Mountainous system of the island with the south. After many years, it would later be reorganized as more than 5 National Highways instead of a single one that diverged into many "Routes". National Highway 17 would later be built from the ashes of "Route D" that went from the northeasternmost tip of the island to the floodplains of Natro.
N3 - Probably the most important of them all, National Highway 3 is the main artery of Isola, Connecting the capital Plavit with many cities on the west side of the island, including the metropolitan area of Weshil, but also reaching the easternmost tip of Isola, even connecting to its smaller sister to the east by a glorious bridge and an underwater tunnel. The highway itself is split into multiple sections instead of being one large continuous strip of conjoined road. This is made for navigational and logistics simplicity, as the road itself could be represented into many different highways instead of one, but to reduce the amount of highways and to allow for better logistics, what could be thought of as many different smaller highways are unified into one symbolic one, sometimes not even existing a physical road but rather a concept of road, including for example, zones where common ferry routes are designated as part of the N3, or zones where there is no connection between the 2 islands and the highway only stays as a concept, which is thought of as if the road itself continued at the other side of the abyss instead of actually existing as a material reality. This kind of concept is further explored on the "Subwaysh representation of Yudonian Highways", mabe by famous Yudonian author and graphic designer Pete Aloso.
N5 - This road is one of the National Highways dedicated to promote local transportation and economy on rural areas, going through the west coast of West Isola
N7 - Being the main road of the island of Provont, the National 7 was probably one of the main factors that made possible the appearance of a unified Proventine identity. The number 7 is even represented on the island's flag as 6 starts displayed in a circle around a bigger one in the middle, and the whole number is today thought of as a number of good luck and prosperity, some buildings making strange things so they can end up having more than one floor 7 or at least multiple ways of giving number 7 to floors or apartments. Same as N3's case, N7 was later extended to also encompass the central highway of the island's little sister, as well as its continuation onto Isola's southwestern lands.
N11 - Highway 11 is one of a very small group of highways which are split into smaller sections rather than being one continuous strip of road. It consists of 2 portions, one on the west side of Isola, and another on the east side of the island, linking other bigger highways between each other while maintaining a linear shape from Natro to the Crispa Swamp. On many maps, as well as on the "Subwaysh representation of Yudonian Highways", Highway 11 is depicted as if it ran along Highway 3 on "The Bridge" for the sake of simplicity and better navigation, but in reality, the highway that crosses from one side of the island to the other could be part of either Highways, as both of them join on one side to later separate again on the other. It is something similar to what happens on Highway 3.
N13 - Highway 13 is a medium-sized road that connects the former capital of Avile with N3 on the southeast coast of Isola.
N14 - Although Highway 14 was not the 14th highway to be conceived, because of the Proventine superstition around the good luck number 7 brings with it, the Highway was allowed to be the number 14th
N17 - An important highway located on the northern coast of Isola, built over very rough and uneasy terrain, whose creation lead to a massive influx of wealth and development to the areas which it goes through.