Editing Transport in Niger (section)

===Routes Nationale===
The national road system ("Routes Nationale") is numbered and prefixed with "RN”, as '''RN1'''. The numbering system contains routes or sections which are as yet unpaved or even unimproved tracks. ''Route Nationale no. 25'', for example, is a major paved highway from Niamey to [[Filingué]], follows the partially improved ''Route Nationale no. 26'' towards [[Abala, Niger|Abala]], veers off onto a dirt track (locally called a ''Piste'') from the villages of Talcho to Sanam, where RN26 also terminates from another direction. RN25 then continues along a piste through a largely uninhabited desert for almost 100 km before reaching the city of [[Tahoua]], served by other major paved roads. The main "Uranium Highway" then coincides with the RN25 to [[Arlit]] in the far north. Consequently, the informal names for the routes (e.g., "Uranium Highway") serve a somewhat more practical purpose than the RN numbers.<sup>[1] [2] [3]</sup>