Editing Transport in Macau (section)

==Roads, bridges and tunnels==
[[File:Macau Sai Van Bridge 2 Taipa.JPG|thumb|right|Macau Sai Van Bridge.]]
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Macau has 321 kilometres of public roads, four bridges (viaducts) linking the Macau Peninsula and Taipa, and a tunnel through the Guia Hill linking the Horta e Costa area and the New Port Area (NAPE). The four bridges are (from east to west) Macau Bridge, the [[Ponte de Amizade|Friendship Bridge (''Ponte de Amizade'')]]; the [[Ponte Governador Nobre de Carvalho|Macau-Taipa Bridge (''Ponte Governador Nobre de Carvalho'')]]; and the [[Ponte de Sai Van|Sai Van Bridge (''Ponte de Sai Van'')]].

The [[Lótus Bridge|Lotus Bridge]] links Cotai with [[Hengqin New Area]] of Zhuhai. Unlike [[mainland China]], where traffic drives on the right, traffic in Macau and Hong Kong drives on the left, therefore a special design has been used to build this bridge to facilitate the change in driving directions.

Roads are generally narrow at the heart of the city and parked cars are always found on both sides of the road. Traffic congestion has been a major problem throughout the day owing to the lack of an efficient mass transit system and a relatively high car to population ratio.

There are four land cross-border checkpoints, Portas do Cerco, Parque Industrial Transfronteiriço, located at Ilha Verde, Cotai (Lotus) Checkpoint, and the [[Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge]] Checkpoint for connection Mainland China. Except for Portas do Cerco, which operates from 06:00 to 01:00, the other checkpoints are in 24-hour operation.

The recent opening of the [[Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge]], opened in October 2018 has formed the first single road link between [[Hong Kong]], [[Macau]] and the Chinese mainland at [[Zhuhai]]. This 50&nbsp;km link consists of a series of bridges and tunnels crossing the [[Lingdingyang]] channel, that connects these three major cities on the [[Pearl River Delta]] in [[China]].