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Green light for traffic in the North
All around Hamburg are many projects are plan- ned to improve better traffic flow. This is essen- tial, since high performance road transport inf- rastructure ensures the competitiveness and the economic development of a region.
The growing Hamburg Metropolitan Area has been fighting with road traffic for years. The increase in port hinterland services and growth in transit traffic such as that through the planned Fehmarn Belt link makes corresponding network interchanges even more important. The Federal government and the states are therefore working on upgrading the auto- bahn network and distributor roads. This will lead to the Hamburg Metropolitan Area living up better to its role as a North-European logistics hub. In North Ger- many it is above all the Federal autobahn A7 that is the most important supra-regional north-south axis. With the A26, A20 and A21, we are presenting fur- ther projects to improve the transport network in the Metropolitan Area in the coming years.
HAMBURG-OTHMARSCHEN
– HAMBURG/SCHLESWIG-HOL- STEIN STATE BORDER – UNDER CONSTRUCTION
The A7 is the most important transport axis for north- south traffic in Northern Germany and indispensable for transit traffic, as well as for regional and urban traffic flows in Hamburg. Because of its double function for both through and city traffic, the segment between the Schleswig-Holstein/Hamburg state border and the Elbe Tunnel is overloaded. On hardly any other autobahn seg- ment in Germany do so many vehicles travel daily. The six-lane section from the Hamburg-North-West auto- bahn intersection to the Stellingen junction alone, is used by 152,000 vehicles daily. The theoretical limit for the available six lanes there is exceeded by 26 percent. Some 104,000 vehicles use the port area of the A7
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