Sweden has a fairly limited system of motorways (motorväg in Swedish). The first motorway (Malmö–Lund) was opened in 1953. The motorways' primary purpose is connecting major cities to their surrounding areas, although there is a long-term ambition to connect Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö with motorways.

With the completion of a couple of new motorway stretches in 2006 and 2007 an interconnecting motorway network exists from Öresund Bridge (to Denmark) in the south to Uddevalla north of Gothenburg, and to Gävle north of Stockholm.

There are also a number of motortrafikleder (semi-motorways, autostrasse), roads with only 2 or 3 (2+1) lanes but to which the same conditions apply as to motorways (i.e. grade-separated crossings, no slow traffic). These can be converted to motorways by adding a parallel road.

This is a complete listing of motorways in Sweden. The Swedish road numbering scheme does not distinguish between motorways and other types of roads.

The speed limit on motorways is generally 110 or 120 km/h (68 mph). 90 and 70 is often used on city motorways, but electronic signs can show a lower limit in bad weather.

List of current motorways

• E4 Helsingborg – Kånna (south of Ljungby)
  • Kånna – Toftaholm is a 2+1 semi-motorway
  • Toftaholm (north of Ljungby) – Jönköping – Linköping – Norrköping – Stockholm – Uppsala – Gävle
  • Gävle – Bergby is a 2+1 semi-motorway

• • Söderhamn – Enånger
  • Sundsvall – Bergeforsen
  • Piteå – Norrfjärden

• E6 Vellinge – Malmö – Halmstad – Gothenburg – Uddevalla – Rabbalshede
  • Hogdal – Svinesund – (Norway)
• E18 Segmon – Ed
  • Karlstad – Alster
  • Örebro – Köping
  • Köping – Västerås is a 2+1 semi-motorway
  • Västerås

• • Västerås – Östanbro is a 2+1 semi-motorway
  • Enköping – Hjulsta
  • Bergshamra – Rosenkälla
  • Rosenkälla – Söderhall is a 2+1 semi-motorway
  • Söderhall – Norrtälje
• E20 (Denmark) – Öresund Bridge – Malmö – Halmstad – Gothenburg – Tollered
  • Lundsbrunn - Holmestad
  • Vretstorp – Arboga
  • Eskilstuna – Strängnäs – Stockholm

• E22 Vellinge – Malmö – Lund – Gårdstånga
  • Vä – Fjälkinge
  • Gualöv – Sölvesborg
  • Nättraby – Karlskrona
  • Kalmar

• E45 Together with E18 Segmon – Ed, Sweden, Gothenburg - Trollhättan under construction.
• E65 Malmö – Tittente
• 11 Malmö Bulltofta – Trafikplats-Sunnanå
• 25 and 30 Öjaby – Växjö center
• 28 Karlskrona Österleden
• 34 Linköping Trafikplats Tift (E4 Linköping västra) – Vallarondellen "Malmslättsleden"
• 35 Linköping Trafikplats Staby (E4 Linköping östra) – Mörtlösarondellen
• 40 Gothenburg – Borås - Rångedala
  • Through Haga in Jönköping
    

    40 through Borås
• 44 Herrestad near Uddevalla – east parts of Uddevalla (old E6)
  • Råsseröd east of Uddevalla – Väne-Ryr (extension to road 45 opened during 2006)
• 50 Together with E20 Brändåsen (Hallsberg) – Norrplan (Örebro)
• 53 Oxelösund – Nyköping
• 73 Älgesta – Stockholm
• 75 Stockholm Södra länken
• 80 Gävle – Sandviken

• 222 Henriksdal – Graninge
• 226 Årsta – Östberga
• 229 Skarpnäck – Bollmora
• 260 Älta – Skrubba
• 265 Norrortsleden E4 – Sollentuna
• 273 E4 – Arlanda airport

Motorways without numbers

The numbers of these roads belong to secondary categories, that do not appear on signs and regular maps:

• North of Helsingborg
• Inre Ringvägen in Malmö, former E6/E20
• Out of Malmö to E22
• Out of Malmö to E6/E22
• "Saltsjöbadsleden" in Nacka

Note that there are more semi-motorways in Sweden, but they have not been considered interesting, since those do not connect to motorways.

Long term goals

There are long term goals in the standard of the major roads, and all new constructed roads should follow this target standard. This target has varied over the years, therefore roads varies somewhat randomly in standard. A bad road has been rebuilt to the target standard of the time, while better roads have been kept as is, even though they didn't fulfill the target standard. This is especially noticeable on the E18.

• E4

Helsingborg-Gävle: motorway, although the existing semi-motorway will be kept for many years.

Gävle-Härnösand: probably narrower motorway all the way. The Enånger-Hudiksvall is being built as a motorway, but was planned as a semi-motorway. The existing semi-motorway will be kept.

Härnösand-Haparanda: semi-motorway, but motorway close to the cities.

• E6

motorway all the way, finished in 2012.

• E18

Segmon-Norrtälje: motorway all the way. The semi-motorways will be kept until all worse parts are rebuilt to motorway.

• E20

Göteborg-Vårgårda: motorway

Vårgårda-Vretstorp: either motorway or semi-motorway. A new motorway is being built (Lundsbrunn-Holmestad).

Vretstorp-Stockholm: motorway

• 40

Göteborg-Ulricehamn: motorway

Ulricehamn-Jönköping: semi-motorway

See also

• Transportation in Sweden

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