Bundesautobahn 40

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North Rhine -Westphalia

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Traffic control system

The Federal Highway 40 (abbreviated as BAB 40) - Short Form: Highway 40 ( Abbreviation: A 40 ) - extends from the Dutch border near Straelen in continuation of the A 67 ( NL) from west to east through the lower Rhine over the Rhine (Rhine bridge Neuenkamp ) through the Ruhr area to Dortmund, where it passes transversely at the junction Dortmund directly behind the Schnettker in the distance as highway-like -developed national road 1 ( Rheinlanddamm ). Until 1992 it was west of the highway junction Kaiserberg a part of the Federal Highway 2, east of which the Federal Highway 430

In Dortmund city area B 1 from legal planning and urban planning reasons has not yet been extended to the highway. The road user registers the fact primarily due to the different signs with the yellow signs for highways instead of the blue for motorways. There is also the territory of the city of Dortmund two intersections with traffic lights, a secured through a traffic light intersection with a tram line and the speed is reduced to the partially narrowed lanes to 50 km / hr.

The A40 from Duisburg to Dortmund and B 1 in the urban area Dortmund together form the big road, a highway with one of the highest traffic volume in Germany with some sections more than 100,000 vehicles per day. Because of this extremely high traffic load and because of the density of the junctions occur regularly in the rush hours traffic jams. Therefore it is also called Ruhrschleichweg or as the "longest car park of the Ruhr " in the vernacular.

2.1 Dortmund
2.2 Bochum
2.3 Food
2.4 Mülheim an der Ruhr

History

From Ruhrschnellweg for A 430

The planning for the big road began in 1926, at a time when more than a third of all road users with horses and carts were traveling. At this time the current was 40 A in the Ruhr area, a relatively small street with just a signal-controlled crossing in watts Scheid ( now part of Bochum). 1934, the existing road was renamed the National Highway 1. In 1935, this R1 was done in the area of today's A 40 and had a nine -meter-wide cross-section, about twenty centimeters less than the narrowest cross-section today.

Due to the increasing amount of traffic considerations began in 1952 to build four-lane road. Was used Placed a speed of 80 km / h There was also a four -meter wide median strip. Between Wattenscheid Dortmund and biking trails also should be built. From 1954 this was extended, and in November 1955, the first section between Essen -Kray and the city limits of Wattenscheid was inaugurated. In July 1957, a second section in Dortmund- Dorstfeld west of Schnettker was completed. In 1958, the sections Wattenscheid and Bochum and Bochum between the city limits and Dortmund- Luetgendortmund were done. 1960 Ruhrschnellweg was inaugurated on the former downtown Bochum.

On 24 October 1961, the first section in Essen was opened to traffic. In November 1962 was the section between the Dortmund city limits and the Ruhr tangent A 1 in Unna " Massener Cross " complete with a makeshift connection to Dortmund- Sölde, and a year later the last aboveground portion was in the Dortmund East between Exit Marsbruchstraße and Sölde inaugurated. The temporary connection on the old R1 in Sölde was never further developed, the connection in the early 1970s was instead to the federal highway 44 implemented on a on the territory of the municipality Holzwickede further south running route in the motorway intersection Dortmund / Unna.

In 1967, the cycle paths were built along the back quick way for the benefit of automobile traffic and the road widened. In September 1970, the big road tunnel was finished eating and was inaugurated on September 25 by Gustav Heinemann. On January 1, 1977, the Federal Highway 1 was eventually rededicated to the federal highway 430.

With the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 and the subsequent eastward expansion of the EU Ruhrschnellweg the task of connecting the Dutch Economic Area with the East German, Polish and Ukrainian economic centers received in addition to his historical role as dysentery Mainline addition. Like pearls on a chain agglomeration of Rotterdam, the Ruhr, the German agents and the Upper Silesian area, the metropolitan of Kiev and the Donets Basin industrial region strung together; the A 430 was part of a major European transport axis.

From the A 430 and A 2 to A 40

In parts of the policy and in circles of the Rhine -Ruhr economy continues growing traffic in the east-west direction and the threat of gridlock in the Ruhr area was to be expected in the early 1990s on, pointed out. As a solution approach in addition to the completion of the A44 was among other things a to big road running parallel to privately created and farming in the south of Dortmund from the A 1 at Holzwickede to the motorway intersection Dortmund / Witten and Bochum Velbert to the motorway intersection Ratingen-Ost tunneling solution between Dortmund and Duisburg discussed, which was not pursued because of the expected costs. Input into the demand plan of the Fourth Act to amend the Highway Expansion Act of 15 November 1993 (Federal Law Gazette 1993, Part I, p 1877) was the former project of the new building of the A44, but in more demand between the AK Dortmund / Witten and the AD Holzwickede; the route Ratingen - Velbert - Bochum was classified as urgent.

In the restructuring of the motorway network in Germany in April 1992, the A 430 was combined with parts of the previous A 2 ( Straelen junction Duisburg -Kaiserberg ) for A 40 to avoid the double conversion of A 2 and A 3 between the crosses Kaiserberg and Oberhausen to meet the increased traffic and importance of the Ruhr fast way.

As part of this upgrade many interchanges have been renamed, previously bore the name of the adjoining city streets, which is not up to standard, and therefore now carry district names (eg, food, Steeler road to Essen- Huttrop, although the connection point is actually located in the southeast quarter).

As part of the impending closure of the Opel Bochum site in the fall of 2004, the policy recalled that the construction of the so-called Opel clasp was already decided a long time. In addition to expanding the A44 to the former Nazi 7 in Bochum at Opel was scheduled, the A 40 of Bochum Stahlhausen to junction six lanes expand 28 Gelsenkirchen -Süd, to relieve traffic congestion. The work in this section was begun on 19 May 2007. The section of the city limits of Essen to Bochum- was completed ahead of schedule in December 2010 and approved in January 2011, but could only be released upon the completion of the relocation of the north junction Gelsenkirchen -Süd 6 November 2011 six lanes. Until 30 December 2011, the expansion of the section of Wattenscheid to the future interchange Bochum- West was completed ahead of schedule, but only after completion of the work on the median strip, on the steep northern wall of noise barriers and the installation of the final road surface of porous asphalt in the direction of Dortmund completed from 18 to 22 May 2012. The subsequent 2 km long section at West Cross will be completed in 2014. The cost of expanding the junction Gelsenkirchen -Süd is estimated at 11.4 million euros, for the section between Gelsenkirchen -Süd and the cross Bochum- West to 30.2 million euros.

Between March and August 2005 were placed on the route between Bochum -Werne and the motorway intersection Dortmund West prescribed for a Federal Highway blue signs. For cost reasons, this part was section - although as a motorway - still equipped with the old signs of the B 1 and posted as a dual carriageway. From August to October 2004, the median strip had been secured in this section with concrete barriers. From 2 May 2007 to 20 October 2009, the subsequent section to the newly created junction 44 Dortmund -Barop was expanded six lanes. As part of the widening of the road, the motorway intersection Dortmund West was, inter alia, partially modernized and been torn down the rainbow bridge and replaced by a new building. In December 2009, the part of the track to the junction 45 Dortmund (B1- departure Dortmund-Hombruch/Lindemannstraße ) for Federal Highway 40 was upgraded since the release of the newly Schnettker on May 31, 2012, he is consistently six lanes passable. For this section, construction costs ran to in the amount of 99 million euros. From April 27 to June 25, 2012, the remaining remediation work at the motorway intersection Dortmund West were each implemented on the weekends. From 30 September 2012 until the end of 2013, the roadway of the highway section was redeveloped to Bochum, which remains four lanes, additional safety equipment and gantries were renewed.

Between junctions 6 and 7 Kerken Neukirchen a new car parking facility Neufeld Heath was put into operation on 19 May 2011, which is to alleviate, among other parking problems especially for trucks. 2001 was the plant Neufeld Heath after years of planning already once before the realization - as on the both sides of the highway cleared forest areas visible - as the part of the Federal Ministry of Transport, the number of required truck stands for the whole of Germany was newly predicted with considerably more parking space. The plant was therefore planning completely redesigned. The original plan of a tank and rest area was abandoned here, as there was no operator.

From 7 July to 30 September 2012 the highway for three months because of the redevelopment of the Ruhrschnellwegtunnels and several bridges between junctions 23 Essen-Zentrum ( western part ) and 24 food - Huttrop was fully blocked in both directions. The full closure shortened the construction of the tunnel retrofit, repair the footbridge Steuben Street and Helbing bridges and the renovation of the superstructure and the support and the support of the banks Bridge City Forest path by a total of 21 months. The total cost of construction amounted to approximately 20 million euros. The savings using the full closure is given as 5.5 million euros. To facilitate non-locals redirection from the highways 3, 42, 43 and 52, about 260 additional traffic signs were erected. On September 30, 2012, the lockout at 17.30 clock could be completely lifted.

Construction projects and future prospects

Dortmund

It is planned for the renovation and expansion of B 1 to Dortmund city to upgrade this section of the Ruhr expressway to the east adjacent to the motorway A 44 also. With the planned highway tunnel between Maerkischer street and Max Eyth road and the dismantling of the then intended only for urban traffic Westphalia dam there is a chance that the district of Dortmund garden city its old center back gets and gains in quality of life. The zoning approval for the construction of the tunnel under the Westfalendamm and its crossing-free connection to Semerteichstraße was declared by the Supreme Administrative Court on 25 August 2009 for illegal because the city of Dortmund was passed over in their planning skills. The connection of the Semerteichstraße as municipal road must be justified by an urban planning concept. The appeal of the country against refusal of the appeal was dismissed by the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig on 13 July 2010. The competent authorities shall further promoting the construction of a tunnel. The city administration has made over building plans building regulations for connecting the Semerteichstraße and the surface of the B 1 The City Council was informed on 23 February 2012 on the state. The National Road NRW wrote out a new traffic report and awarded expert opinions for soundproofing and air hygiene for the plan approval process for the tunnel. First results should be available by mid-2013. The planned construction of roads NRW is now in 2020.

By released on December 6, 2003 new road layout in the urban crown East to the main cemetery Dortmund in the amount of the main entrance is a step to improve the flow of traffic was done in which the traffic lights system was replaced at the local intersection by turning on and Ausfahrstreifen and an underpass. At the end of this rail line another construction project is realized by the rail line U47 is no longer listed on the B 1, but these moves below. Thus, a further set of traffic lights is superfluous. Preparatory tree felling were end of February 2011 and compensation measures, plantations in the light Straße (Dortmund - Sölderholz ) in March 2011 and avenue plantings of the Lord Street (Dortmund - Aplerbeck ) implemented in January 2012. From 25th to February 27th, 2013 109 trees were felled on the median strip. Until the end of March extensive pipe laying work was completed and furnished the building area and the traffic routing, in April 2013 began the structural work. In the spring of 2015, the tunnel is to be passable.

The exit Marsbruchstraße will result in the elimination of the broadening of the B 1 as the former Abbie knitted tire is needed for the highway. The Marsbruchstraße is connected to the node graveyard / Stadtkrone -east. The six-lane expansion of the immediately adjoining motorway-like section of the B 1 to the transition to the A44 is in the planning approval. The preliminary plans envisage a new junction Holzwickede -east. On the south side of the junction Holzwickede in anticipation have already been built in 2005 noise barriers made of concrete elements from January to May. On the six lanes developed section in the urban crown East are still noise barriers to create and outdated sound barriers between the Marsbruchstraße and Holzwickede are to be replaced by newly designed, larger and partially transparent investments. The expansion and renovation work is scheduled to begin in 2017.

The projects are set out in the investment plan of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development for the years 2006 to 2010. For the present in the planning section of the junction Dortmund ( at the level of Wittekindstraße / L 660 ) to Dortmund -Mitte ( märkische street / L 672 ) are estimated construction costs to 140.1 million euros, and the section between Dortmund -Mitte the Dortmund- east on the B 236 ( back in pre-planning ) 234.8 million euros are provided. The section from Dortmund- east to the motorway intersection Dortmund / Unna ( transition to the A 44 in plan approval ) is estimated at 118.1 million euros.

Bochum

The existing junction 32 Bochum Stahlhausen and the end of the Bochum ring be converted to Bochum West Cross on April 29, 2010. The western parts of the Bochum ring (namely Donetsk, Oviedo and Nordhausen -Ring) are incremented to highway 448 and connected to the existing A44 from the cross Bochum / Witten. Thus, a continuous connection to the A44 from the West Cross Bochum results to the Kreuz Dortmund / Witten. As part of the now discontinued plans that continue to lead the A 44 from Bochum to Velbert, the connection between A 40 and A 44 and A 441 and A 442 was later than planned. The foreseen for April 2013 completion of the motorway junction Bochum- West shifts due to the remediation of mining subsidence in the construction area probably until winter 2014. The construction costs for the cross Bochum- West are specified with 60 million euros.

For includes omitted in transforming stations Bochum- Dückerweg and Bochum-Stahlhausen/Wattenscheider street parking Somborn at the city limits of Bochum Dortmund will be expanded into the rest stop Bever creek. From 1 February 2012, made the removal of trees, the expansion of the parking area began on 2 April and was completed by the end of 2012. After completion of the work to ceiling and building renewal of the A 40 between the junction Dortmund -Kley and Dortmund- Luetgendortmund the parking lot on November 8, 2013 were handed over to the road users. With the construction of the locking system was started in October 2013. You should go in summer 2014. On the north side a truck stop in the amount of Hansastraße in Bochum- was being considered, could be submitted for the previously not -approvable plan.

Food

The connection point 26 Food - Frillendorf is shifted to the technology the center. The north exit is about 500 m east built on a new link road, then closed the previous departure and dismantled. The Planning Committee of the City Council of the City of Essen instructed the administration to initiate a procedure for the expropriation of the owner TÜV Nord at the District Government in Dusseldorf after the failed purchase of an important development of the property.

The Südabfahrt is re- established at the Schönscheidtstraße. There, a channel crossing was constructed from 27 April to mid-June 2012, 2013 earthworks and construction of the compound was concluded to Schönscheidtstraße. On March 10, 2014, the new building of the deceleration and acceleration lane, which should be completed in the autumn of 2015 began.

Mülheim an der Ruhr

Until about 2020, the six-lane extension of the A 40 is provided by Mülheim an der Ruhr. The preliminary studies to have begun.

Award the designation A 40 1975-1992 for the lip edge of motorway

The term Federal Highway 40 (abbreviated BAB 40) - Short Form: Highway 40 ( Abbreviation: A 40 ) was 1975-1992 provided for the so-called lip border highway. That with effect from 1 January 1975 so designated construction project included a motorway, should have the following course ( in west-east direction):

Beginning southwest Rheurdt with connection to the B 510
Motorway junction with the A 42 at Rheurdt
Bypass west and north to Kamp- Lintfort
Interchange with the A 57 northeast Kamp- Lintfort
South Rheinberg (B 57)
South Voerde including Rhine bridge and highway junction with A59
North Dinslaken (B 8)
Interchange with the A 3 at AS Dinslaken North
Along State Road 462
Bypass west and north of Bottrop- Kirchhellen
South Dorsten and Altendorf Ulfkotte
South motorway junction with the A52 AS Dorsten- East
North Polsum
South Marl
Interchange with the A 43 at AS Marl- Sinsen (now State Road 522)
North and east of Recklinghausen
South Oer- Erkenschwick
North Castrop- Rauxel Becklem and south - dates Meckinghoven (B 235)
South-west motorway junction with the A 45 Waltrop
North Lünen Brambauer
Bypass west and north of Lünen (B 236)
South Cappenberg
North Werne (B 54)
Motorway junction with the A1 at the AS Hamm-Bockum/Werne
North Hamm Bockum- Hovel (B 63) and Hamm- Heessen (now State Road 518)
Bypass west and north of Ahlen (B 58)
Following the A 2 in the AS Beckum

Thus they would have fit well into the scheme of ascending numbering of the east-west highways from north to south:

A 42: Kamp- Lintfort - Duisburg -Nord - Oberhausen - Gelsenkirchen - Dortmund
A 44: Aachen - Dusseldorf North - South Bochum - Dortmund -Süd - Kassel
A 46: Heinberg - Dusseldorf -South - Wuppertal - Hagen - Bestwig
A 48: Triangle volcanic Eifel - Koblenz

With the renaming of the A 430 in A 40 thus lies between A 42 and A 44

The 1971 integrated plan for the expansion of federal highways in the years 1971 to 1985 saw first, before even that in a two-lane Aldekerk B 510 branched from the B 9 and should be expanded to four lanes of Rheurdt Rheinberg. Between Rheinberg and west of Hamm ( B 61), the new building was planned as a trunk road in 1120, with the decision about the road construction ( federal / state ) was not known. Between Hamm and Beckum of the four-lane construction of the B 61 was planned, so a south Ahlen leading route.

Even with the First Law of 5 August 1976 amending the Act on the expansion of federal highways in the years 1971 to 1985 ( Federal Law Gazette 1976, Part I, p 2093 ) remained the question of the public easement unclear. In the development plans of the Second Law of 25 August 1980 amending the Act on the expansion of federal highways in the years 1971 to 1985 ( Federal Law Gazette 1980, Part I, p 1614), only the route Rheinberg (A 57) was - Dinslaken ( A 3), however, provided for the construction of the A 40, in urgency level I. The parallel to the A 2 extending portion between Dinslaken and Beckum has been deleted. Only in Lünen still part of the planned than B236 bypass a part of the original planning of the A 40 had been included, albeit as a two-lane solution in urgency level 2 The Third Law of 21 April 1986 amending the Act on the expansion of federal highways ( Gazette, 1986, part I, p 557 ) resulted in the cancellation of the A total of 40 planning, with two-lane federal highway new buildings between Rheinberg (A 57) and Dinslaken (A 3), as OU Lünen (B 236) and OU Ahlen (B 58 ) on the route of the original plan should come to the realization ( further planning / other requirements). The Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2003, no part of the old section A 40 is included.

The following sections were opened to traffic:

Rheinberg (State Road 137) - AS Rheinberg - B 510 old: 1986 (2,3 km, single lane, as the B 510)
Marl -South - AS Marl- Sinsen - country road at 551 Marl- Sinsen: 1979 ( 3.2 km single track, as the country road 522)
Werne ( county road 15) - AS Hamm-Bockum/Werne - north Hamm ( B 63): 1965-2001 (13,4 km, single lane )

In the current state road requirements plan of Nordrhein-Westfalen following projects are included, which are on the route of the former A 40:

OU Dinslaken B 8 - A 3 ( as part of the national road 4)
OU Marl B 225 - AS " On Höwings field " ( as part of the national road 522)
OU north Werne ( as part of the national road 518)

Others

There is a Spurbusstrecke between two motorway strip between junctions food Huttrop and Essen-Kray. This includes the stops Oberschlesienstraße, Feldhaushof, Frillendorfer space and Schönscheidtstraße and is served by bus routes 146 and 147 of the EVAG. By 1985, drove here instead the meter gauge tram.

Between junctions Essen-Zentrum and Mülheim -Hot ( western part ) runs the standard gauge metro rail line U18, also between the highway strip.

In Essen and Mülheim area of so-called porous asphalt was laid, even at the waiting passengers to make the wait more bearable. However, this measure served mainly the noise protection of residents, as the track runs right through densely populated areas.

Between junctions Mülheim- Winkhausen and Bochum -Werne Verkehrsleitanlagen regulate the traffic.

Was the A 40, the Federal Highway 1 between the B 54 in the west and the B 236 in the east, the maximum speed limit of 60 km / h reduction of noise and pollution of local residents in Dortmund on the eastern extension on 14 November 2007 or limited to 50 km / hr. 70 km / h.

Since 12 February 2008, the big road between the motorway junctions Dortmund West is and Dortmund- Unna (as A 44 to A 1) locked in the night hours for truck through traffic ( with the A 45 and A 40 ).

Since May 2009, the federal motorway A 40 scene of several artistic interventions. The Eichbaumoper and the symphony A40 were among the first cultural projects that see the A40 as a cultural space and to deal creatively with the transit area.

As part of the Capital of Culture year RUHR.2010 the A 40 has been included on various sections in the project. Thus, numerous large-format paintings and colored in Bochum noise barriers have been mounted, inter alia, in the area of food. The climax of the use of the A 40 presented as a cultural Ruhr motorway in the Bespielung by RUHR.2010 July 18, 2010 dar. for this day was the big road at 60 km from the AS Duisburg ports to Dortmund märkische road (B1 ) closed to motor traffic. The carriageway to Duisburg was used with approximately 20,000 beer tent sets to celebrate, released the opposite direction for cyclists and inline as a mobility track. On the entire route both citizens and artists under the theme still life Ruhrschnellweg should the Capital of Culture Ruhr celebrate and be able to experience.

On 30 May 2010 the exit Bochum- Hamme was (33 ) the motorway church inaugurated WATCH ( Epiphany Church) nearby.