Primary Highway 65

Primary Highway 65 (P65) is the primary north-south highway through Cydonia. It passes through the heart of Cydonia City and connects in the south to Primary Highway 95 toward Huxford and Cacklington. The entire freeway is designated the Freddie Mercury Memorial Freeway in memory of the deceased frontman of the rock band Queen

Route Description
P65 begins at a high-speed T-interchange with P95 in the southeastern corner of Norfolk, Cydonia. It then heads northwest through the town of Norfolk, interchanging with T504 before squeezing into the valley between Mount Otis and Mount Bruce. S25 begins at P65's only at-grade intersection, immediately before the Mount Carlisle Tunnel. S25 is the route of the old highway across Donner Pass, and all trucks carrying hazardous materials are required to cross on it rather than through the tunnel. After the tunnel, P65 curves around Mount Putnam and crosses S25 a few more times, including one half-interchange, and then enters Salem Springs, where the suburban sprawl that makes up most of Central Cydonia begins. The landscape begins to level out after the interchange with S36, and after entering Curitiba, motorists encounter a pair of service plazas intertwined with the S225/P270/S25E interchange, followed by a crossing of the Euphrates River, which marks the Cydonia city limits.

Most of the interchanges within Cydonia City are partial, due to the dense urban nature of the city. First comes S40, then P365, S25E again, and S40 again. All trucks are required to exit P65 at S40 (Exit 27) due to restrictions on the double-decker Tobin Bridge over the Mystic River, and in fact trucks are advised to use P270 to P170 to P70 to reach downtown Cydonia City to avoid them having to use city streets. The double-decker freeway continues through downtown to the massive interchange with P70, which is slated to be reconstructed sometime in the near future to reduce the interchange's footprint due to skyrocketing land values downtown. North of this interchange, P65 runs in a wide right-of-way that it shares with the CTA Red Line, Mercury Boulevard, and some utilities, until the Red Line splits off to the west at Quincy Street in southern Perkins. A few kilometers later, P65 reaches its next major interchange, the northern side of the P270 beltway and S125, after which the suburbs begin transitioning back to agricultural lands, and the freeway parallels the Mystic River briefly.