Changes

But as the new motorway R1 was finished the streams seperated. Sometimes they are called the northern way and the shouthern. They split near [[Trnava]] and join in [[RuzomberokRužomberok]]. Going both ways there is always a part where there is no highway/motorway (After they will finish the [[ZilinaŽilina]]-[[RuzomberokRužomberok]] part this will no longer be valid. But they are not going to finish it at least the next 5 years.) but just a national road. For the north one it is the road 18, for the south it is the road 59. Still the north route is the more used becouse it's a habit. But in the summer it is close to be equal.

During the winter the northern route becomes more used by people going at least to [[RuzomberokRužomberok]], becouse on the south route there are a lot of skiing centres so most of the cars go there and they tend to be full and there is allways a trafiic jam so the long distance drivers avoid this route.

Another small group of cars that go from west to the farest east ([[KosiceKošice]] and more east) go by the so called big south route. It's a route that start in [[Bratislava]], goes by the D1 highway, continues by the R1 motorway and the gets off the motorway either in [[Nitra]] or in [[Zvolen]] and continues by the national roads and then the big northern way and the big southern way meet in [[KosiceKošice]]. But this is the least used route. The meaning of mentioning this option is just to be said that some people go that way and it is still possible to hitch there.