Editing Transport in Lithuania (section)

=== Major highway projects in Interwar Lithuania ===
Before [[World War I]], there were few isolated routes suitable for transit traffic e.g. present day [[A12 highway (Lithuania)|A12 highway]], connecting [[Riga]] with [[Kaliningrad]], or present day [[A6 highway (Lithuania)|A6 highway]] which was part of highway [[Warsaw]]–[[Saint Petersburg]] that ran through [[Kaunas]]. After Lithuania became an independent country in 1918, there was increased demand for new highways for inner needs. First long-distance highways built exclusively by the Lithuanian government were opened in the late 1930s. These are following:
* [[Samogitian highway]] – old highway built in the 1930s, connecting Kaunas and Klaipėda. Road section between Kaunas and [[Ariogala]] is now completely refurbished to [[motorway]], and the road section from Ariogala to Klaipėda is serving as alternative road for a parallelly-built [[A1 highway (Lithuania)|A1 motorway]] and connects local towns such as Ariogala, [[Raseiniai]] and [[Rietavas]].
* [[Aukštaitian highway]] – old highway built in the 1930s. It connects Kaunas, [[Kėdainiai]], [[Panevėžys]] and [[Biržai]] to Riga. After building an original route, new routes were built through the course of Soviet Union and after its dissolution. The road was gradually rerouted to avoid larger urban areas, and now runs from [[Sitkūnai]], bypasses Kėdainiai, Panevėžys, [[Pasvalys]], Biržai, and reaches Latvian border to Riga. Rerouted highway is now part of [[Via Baltica]].