An airport in Gibraltar has a busy 4-lane highway crossing through its runway
Small as it may be, it is said to be home to one of the world's most extreme airports. The Gibraltar International Airport, which sits at the tip of the territory's northern border with Spain, has a busy highway bisecting its runway.
The four-lane Winston Churchill Boulevard is the main road leading into and out of Gibraltar. Every time a plane takes off or lands, the road must close, creating one of the most insane airport traffic patterns in the world, as well as insane traffic.
The video below shows how close cars and planes get.
Gibraltar's airport is small - in 2015 there there were only around 11 flights daily - but the road can still be closed for up to two hours per day, creating backups all across town and up to the Spanish border.
Watch passenger planes roll across the highway like it's nothing.
Tourism in the territory is growing, and more and more airlines are operating flights into and out of the airport.
While officials are considering building a new road, this traffic snafu isn't going anywhere until then.
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