Bundesautobahn 67

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State:

• Hesse

The Federal Highway 67 (abbreviated as BAB 67) - Short form: Highway 67 ( Abbreviation: A 67 ) - is a highway that runs in a north -south direction of the Rhine between four and Rüsselsheim. The A 67 is 58 km long and mostly four lanes, only from Lorsch to the southern end, there are three lanes in each direction is available.

Route description

The A 67 branches on mönchhof triangle of the A 3 now and runs tangent to the cities Rüsselsheim ( with triangle the A 60 towards Mainz ) and large -Gerau and the community Buettelborn over until they deal with the A 5 and A 672 crosses the west of Darmstadt. In this case, change the A 67 and the A 5 roadways. Thus ends the northern section, which was built in the sixties with partial use of the route of State Road 26 and the A 67 goes into a section of the HaFraBa, which was planned for construction in the Weimar Republic and performed from 1933 to 1935. This stretch of highway continues past the towns of Gernsheim and Lorsch and ends on Viernheimer triangle perpendicular to A 6, the carriageway of the A67 further takes over from here to the south.

With the preparations for the extension of the motorway between Darmstadt and Lorsch to six lanes has begun. From October 2006 to September 2007, the bridge of the old route of the B 426 was renewed between Pfungstadt and Hahn. South of the new bridge is the oldest still existing highway bridge on the HaFraBa Mainline ( Hanseatic cities -Frankfurt- Basel) with the building number 6217687th This is also to be demolished as part of the extension. The bridge between Pfungstadt and Griesheim was demolished in the spring of 2007.

Between Darmstadt and Viernheimer triangle a new ICE line is planned parallel to the highway of history.

The Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan also is the six-lane expansion between mönchhof triangle and Rüsselsheimer triangle in " urgent need " between Rüsselsheim junction and Darmstadt in the " other needs" included. After completing all measures, the A67 along its entire length would be six lanes.

Trivia

Early 1970s were propagated, so for example, was the sign Rüsselsheim East (1000 m ) with 15 bullet holes made ​​victims of shooting practice traffic signs. Then brought the Highway Authority at above a target.