Europe’s busiest motorway connects three different countries and cost £5bn to…

Brits battling to get home on congested motorways will be able to sympathise with drivers stuck in traffic on Europe’s busiest one.

At just over 340 miles, the E19 is 110 miles longer than the M6 and runs through three countries – The Netherlands, Belgium and France.

It links Amsterdam with Paris and is thought to have cost around £5bn to build. This figure is according to the European Court of Auditors which estimates that each kilometre of motorway built in Europe costs approximately £9.2m.

The road starts in the Dutch capital city on the A4 and goes through to The Hague where it switches to the A13 to Delft and Rotterdam.

It then continues on the Kleinpolderplein on the A20 and Terbregseplein on the A16.

At Zwijndrecht it passes through a tunnel as it goes on to Dordrecht, over the Moerdijkbruggen, then to the city of Breda.

The road then continues on to the busy border crossing of Hazeldonk/ Meer into Belgium.

Once drivers reach Belgium they keep going on the E19, which runs on the A1 past Antwerp and then past Brussels. The route then leads down into France via the A7.

In France’s northernmost region, the Hauts-de-France, the E19 runs first on the A2 before serving as the ring on the A23 motorway to Lille, when it gets to Valenciennes.

At the junction of Graincourt-lès-Havrincourt near Cambrai, the E19 joins the Autoroute des Anglais E17. Then it meets the E15 European route near Combles.

Getting closer than ever to its end point, the road now runs on the North Autoroute A1 through the Picardy to Paris.

At this point the European roads E15 and E19 merge into each other.

The E19 then connects to the E44 near the village of Ablaincourt-Pressoir, approximately 80 miles from Paris.

It then passes by Compiègne before reaching the Ile de France region.

The road reaches the “City of Love” close to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, and meets the Francilienne, which is also known as the A104. It then meets the A170 at the junction of Gonesse.

Shortly afterwards the E15 and E19 diverge in Garonor. The E19 then connects with the Parisian ring road, the A86.

It ends at the Porte de la Chapelle, where it connects to the Boulevard Périphérique ring road, and the area of La Chapelle.