Editing Transport in Barbados (section)

==Roadways==
As a former British colony, Barbados was heavily influenced by the English culture and customs, which carried over into the infrastructure of Barbados. Similar to the driving habits in the [[United Kingdom]], people in Barbados also drive on the left side of the road. Barbados has a very dependable [[List of highways in Barbados|highway system]] of main roads that stem from the country's capital, [[Bridgetown]]. The highways are identified by the numbers one to seven. H1 signifies the first highway that runs north. The numbering continues sequentially in a clockwise direction. The most popular highway throughout the island is the [[ABC Highway|A. B. C. Highway]] ([[Tom Adams (politician)|Adams]]/[[Errol Barrow|Barrow]]/[[Hugh Gordon Cummins|Cummins]]).

Throughout the Barbados roadways, the most prominent traffic junctions are the two lane [[roundabouts]]. Like roundabouts seen in the [[United States]] vehicles in the inner most lane of the roundabout have the right of way, however, in Barbados the traffic moves in clockwise direction. The speed limit on all roads is {{convert|60|kph|0|abbr=on}} unless otherwise posted. The speed limit on the ABC Highway and the Spring Garden Highway is {{convert|80|kph|0|abbr=on}}.<ref name="Vehicle and Transport Guide">{{cite web |title=Vehicle and Transport Guide |url=https://barbadosdigitalnomads.com/transport-and-driving#private-vehicles |website=Barbados Digital Nomads |access-date=11 September 2022}}</ref>

[[File:Barbados-Spring-Garden-Highway2.JPG|thumb|Spring Garden Highway close to [[Malibu Rum]].]]
In 2010, an assessment released by the [[Economist Intelligence Unit]] (EIU) of the [[United Kingdom]], ranked Barbados 6th in the world, and the top spot in the [[Western Hemisphere]] for road network density.<ref name="EIE 2010">{{cite news |title=Barbados' road networks among the most crowded in the world |first=Tony |last=Best |url=http://blog.moontownbarbados.com/2010/01/04/ |newspaper=[[The Daily Nation (Barbados)|Nation Newspaper]] |date=4 Jan 2010 |access-date=4 January 2010 |quote="Barbados has one of the world's most dense road networks, leading the Western Hemisphere with 3.7 kilometres of road for every kilometre of land, reported the EIU, giving it a global ranking of sixth, behind Macau, Malta, Bahrain, Singapore and Belgium. Not far away were Puerto Rico, {{convert|2.8|km|0|abbr=on}} and 9th; Jamaica {{convert|2.0|km|0|abbr=on}} and 10th; and Trinidad and Tobago 19th with {{convert|1.6|km|0|abbr=on}} of road." }}</ref>

===Road incidents===
In terms of traffic and accidents, the 2010 EIU report found that Barbados had 63.1 vehicles per kilometre of road (101.5/mi) on the island.<ref name="EIE 2010" /> A rank that placed Barbados as 23rd globally for number of vehicles, by the total surface area of roads.  For accident totals, Barbados placed 12th globally for road victims per 100,000 people; and 23rd globally (which was shared with The [[United States]], [[Greece]], [[Tunisia]], [[Estonia]] and [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]), for actual road fatalities per 100,000 people.