Interstate 18

Interstate 18 (I-18) is controlled-access highway in the northern Athens Federation. The highway travels northwestward from Lindenwood to Kharkiv, and provides a more direct route between Sholedo and Fernost. The highway travels in a northwest-southeast direction, despite its even-numbered designation which usually means an east-west route (and I-18 is signed east/west). 
Interstate 18 was previously the first discontinuity in the Athens Federation Interstate Highway System, and is now considered to be the first fully completed interstate in the federation. The Lindenwood segment of the highway was originally signed Interstate 720, and the Kharkiv segment was originally planned to be Interstate 125 before the AFDOT decided to connect the two highways and resign it as a two-digit interstate.
== Route ==
I-18 begins with a complex interchange with Interstate 20 in Lindenwood, and travels northwestward to Versailles and Wentzville passing by Lindenwood Airport. After Wentzville, I-18 enters a much more rural area, and crosses the northern Prime Sea by the Akio Suzuki Bridge. On the other side of the bridge, I-18 eventually reaches Interstate 25 just north of Nairobi. West of Interstate 25, as required by City of Kharkiv law, the highway has very large hard shoulders on each side. I-18 continues with the hard shoulders until it ends south of downtown Kharkiv. 
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