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The new autobahn is intended as a high-performance east-west road axis to combine port traffic flows over a large area. Apart from its function in the overall auto- bahn network, the aim is that it should improve accessi- bility of the Port Hamburg and reduce traffic and with it noise and emissions in inner-city districts. The port crossing south of Wilhelmsburg will be topped for 1400 metres by a green noise-prevention ‘lid’.
The A26 port crossing will cross the Southern Elbe to the south of the Kattwyk Bridge. This will meet state- of-the-art technical requirements and fit in with its port setting. Back in 2013, therefore, DEGES, which is plan- ning and building the A26 East, organized an architectur- al competition that attracted German and international design offices.
access link with the A26, in future the A20 will be the most important east-west link in Northern Germany, serving the German seaports on the North Sea and the Baltic Sea as a hinterland connection. The two planned autobahn junctions will provide important interfaces with the A23 and the A7.
A21 A21 UPGRADING OF THE
B404 – PLANNING AND BUILDING
Running north-south from the state capi-
tal Kiel via Bad Segeburg and as far as Schwarzenbek, with links to the A1 and A24, the A21 is currently a 56-kilometre stretch of autobahn in Northern Germany. For most of the way, the A21 follows the
route taken by the B404.
INFRASTRUCTURE PORT ■
Relaxed driving on the A26 before the autobahn intersection towards Stade
A26 WEST – UNDER CONSTRUCTION
The eight-kilometre stretch of the A26 West between the Lower Saxony/Hamburg state border and the A7 is notable for its special location between the Moorgürtel nature reserve and bird sanctuary and the famed Altes Land fruit-growing area.
Heavy traffic here has for years led a to a growing shift from the B73 to parallel state, district and municipal roads. As a result, driving is slow, there are numerous accidents, and residents are plagued by noise, pollut- ants and separations.
In addition, northwards from the port autobahn junc- tion the A7 is to be widened from the present six to eight lanes. It will also be necessary to expand the A7 to eight lanes near the planned junction with the A26, and as far as the HH-Heimfeld junction farther South.
Including the Elbe crossing near Geesthacht, extension of the A21 as Hamburg’s Eastern by-pass will be essen- tial in the long term to give long-distance traffic from the eastern area of Northern Germany the opportunity of tak- ing a short route around the Hamburg area. Relief for the A1 can be anticipated from an eastern by-pass in the long term, when connections to the autobahn network in Low- er Saxony are set up to handle the traffic volumes.
The B 404 along the approx. 11.6 kilometres between Klein Barkau and Stolpe is currently being upgraded as the A21 by the autobahn agency. In the greater Kiel ar- ea, DEGES is working on the plans to extend A21 from Klein Barkau as far as Kiel-Wellenseedamm and from Neumeimersdorf as far as Kiel.
PRIORITY FOR THE WESTERN ELBE
CROSSING NEAR GLÜCKSTADT
The new Federal Transport Plan 2030 has assessed extension of the A21 across the Elbe from the A24 as far as the A39 in Lower Saxony as ‘a new build- ing project to meet further needs with planning per- mission’. However, priority is being given to the A20, including the additional Western Elbe crossing near Glückstadt. ■ Etta Weiner
A20
NEW BYPASS IN SCHLESWIG- HOLSTEIN – IN PLANNING
The A20 NW bypass of Hamburg is of outstanding importance as a compo-
nent of the TEN Trans-European Road Network. As the western continuation of the Baltic autobahn A20 Lübeck – Stettin across the Elbe into Lower Saxony and the
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