A1 motorway (Belgium)

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Provinces:

  • Flemish Brabant
  • Antwerp

The Belgian Highway 1, also on French Autoroute 1 or Dutch. Autosnelweg called 1, Brussels connects past Antwerp and the Dutch border in Hoogstraten.

Course

The A1 starts at the border crossing Hoogstraten and ends on the cross Machelen. The highway leads to the first few kilometers past the small town of Sea and Brecht up to Antwerp, where it empties into the ring of Antwerp R1. On the Cross Antwerp -South it extends on past Rumst and Mechelen to Brussels, where they in the ring of Brussels, R0, opens.

The center strip

The remarkable thing about the section between Antwerp and Brussels, the extremely wide median strip (40 feet wide, with a length of about 35 km). The original plans from the beginning of the 1970s were based on an unrealistic from today's perspective, traffic growth. It was planned to add on the remaining free agents strip at a later time express lanes between buffalo and Antwerp, which had only in Mechelen still interchanges, (which is also the complicated interchanges in Mechelen Mechelen North and South explained ). Only between Antwerp and Kontich the 2x2 middle lanes were actually built. From implementation in the rest of the way one has apart later, despite the increase in traffic volume. Because the Brussels and Antwerp ring roads during rush hour already can no longer absorb and manage the entire traffic volume, an additional widening of the A1 would shift the congestion only from the A1 to the connection points around Antwerp and Brussels. This wide median strip, including the unnecessarily long bridges over the A1, the partially non-functional interchange in Mechelen and the internal street lamps that lit up the unused funds stripes make, in their entirety, the A1 in their secondary characteristics to a boondoggle because of design errors. The non-functioning lamps were dismantled in 2006.

In 1997, shortly after the scandal of Marc Dutroux in memory of the perished through him and the road children on a part of the middle strip some trees, the so-called " White children Wald" ( " Witte Kinderbos " ) planted.

On the median strip between Zemst and Brussels began in the summer of 2007, the construction work on a high-speed rail link between Antwerp and the Brussels Airport. This 32 ha of the White children forest disappear and be replaced by a green belt on both sides of the A1 to shield the adjacent residential areas. The largest part of the White children forest, which is located between Mechelen and Antwerp, however, remains unchanged. The route was completed in June 2012.

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