Editing Odesa (section)

=== Roads and automotive transport ===
[[File:Odessa road.jpg|thumb|The M05 Highway links Odesa with the nation's capital, Kyiv. The Odesa junction.]]

The first car in the Russian Empire, a [[Mercedes-Benz]] belonging to V. Navrotsky, came to Odesa from France in 1891.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}} He was a popular city publisher of the newspaper ''Odesskii listok'' ("Odesa leaf").

Odesa is linked to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, by the [[M05 highway (Ukraine)|M05 Highway]], a high quality multi-lane road which is set to be re-designated, after further reconstructive works, as an 'Avtomagistral' (motorway) in the near future. Other routes of national significance, passing through Odesa, include the M16 Highway to [[Moldova]], M15 to [[Izmail]] and [[Romania]], and the [[Highway M14 (Ukraine)|M14]] which runs from Odesa, through [[Mykolaiv]] and [[Kherson]] to Ukraine's eastern border with Russia. The M14 is of particular importance to Odesa's maritime and shipbuilding industries as it links the city with Ukraine's other large deep water port [[Mariupol]] which is located in the south east of the country.

Odesa also has a well-developed system of inter-urban municipal roads and minor beltways. However, the city is still lacking an extra-urban bypass for transit traffic which does not wish to proceed through the city centre.

Intercity bus services are available from Odesa to many cities in Russia (Moscow, [[Rostov-on-Don]], [[Krasnodar]], [[Pyatigorsk]]), Germany (Berlin, Hamburg and [[Munich]]), Greece ([[Thessaloniki]] and [[Athens]]), [[Bulgaria]] ([[Varna, Bulgaria|Varna]] and [[Sofia]]) and several cities of [[Ukraine]] and Europe.