Motorways criss-cross countries across the globe, making it easy for drivers to get around quickly.
But this isn’t the case for people living in one nation in Africa.
This is even though it is the second-largest country in the continent by land area, and the 11th-largest in the world.
It is the Democratic Republic of Congo and it has a population of 109 million people, making it the most populous Francophone country in the world.
Maybe they are all happy to not be stuck in yet another motorway snarl-up.
According to the website Logistics Cluster, the country’s roads are in dire need of repair after years of armed conflicts.
It is believed that the DRC has 58,358 km of national roads, 86,615 km of rural roads, and 7,400 km of urban roads.
But it is said that only five percent of the national roads are paved.
The closest the DRC gets to something similar to a motorway are the two main highways on the national road network.
They are the East-West road (which links the port of Matadi to Lubumbashi via Kinshasa) and the North-South road (linking Lubumbashi to Goma, Bukavu and Kisangani).
The East-West road was originally a dirt road but was transformed due to an agreement with China.
Once the project was finalised the China State Construction Engineering Corporation was given the contract to build the highway.
It took from 2008 to 2016 and at the time was the largest infrastructure project in the history of China-Congo co-operation. On March 1, 2016 the No 1 National Highway opened to traffic.
Congolese President Denis Sassou-Nguesso said the Chinese builders “have fulfilled the dream of generations of Congolese people, and China is sincere in helping us develop our economy.”
The British Government advises against all travel to parts of Democratic Republic of the Congo, due to safety fears.