Motorway 20 (Switzerland)
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Ins ( 47 ° 0 ′ N , 7 ° 7 ′ E ) |
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Le Crêt-du-Locle ( 47 ° 4 ′ N , 6 ° 47 ′ E ) |
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Map with all coordinates: On the one hand, Autobahn 20 and Autostrasse 20 open up the connection between the A1 and A5 autobahns on the Bern - Neuchâtel route. A first section was realized in motorway standard as a bypass Kerzer. Later, however, this was downgraded and the route changed - now the connection to the A1 is no longer via the Kerzers connection (which was created as a motorway junction), but via the Murten connection. In the construction standard leads as a highway of Ins in Canton Bern to Zihlbrücke at the cantonal border. This section was only assigned to Autobahn 20 in 2020.
In a second part, the A20 connects the lower and upper regions within the canton of Neuchâtel. It is there as a motorway ( Allée des Défricheurs ) from Neuchâtel through the Val de Ruz to Les Hauts-Geneveys , then again as a car road with two tunnels through the Vue des Alpes to La Chaux-de-Fonds . Another section of the motorway is at Le Crêt-du-Locle between La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle .
These sections have been part of National Road 20 since 2020 ; before that, the roads were cantonal. The Bern part was designated as T10, the Neuchâtel part as J20. The connection to the A1 is in the canton of Friborg.
history
| year | Section |
|---|---|
| 1981 | Branch Kerzers to the A1 (then N1) |
| 1994 | Valangin - La Chaux-de-Fonds |
| 2000 | Neuchâtel Vauseyon - Valangin section |
| 2002 | Ins - Gampelen |
| 2004 | Le Crêt-du-Locle bypass |
Connection A1 to A5
When the N1 Bern - Yverdon was built in the 1980s, the connection between Bern and Neuenbug was planned as a junction at Kerzers and built as a direction-separate motorway in the form of a bypass from Kerzers to Hauptstrasse 10. The traffic between Bern and Neuchâtel was routed via Hauptstrasse 10 through Müntschemier, Ins, Gampelen as a village passage. The next step was to build the connection Zihlbrücke to Ins with the aim of opening at Expo.01, which was then opened for Expo.02 , which was postponed by a year . As a result, the problem arose that only one of the three village crossings was lost. The route has now been changed: the connection between Ins and Galmiz / Murten, which was not originally marked as a main road, was added to the main road network on main road 182 - main road 182 originally only connected Friborg with Murten. Almost all village crossings can now be avoided - only Sugiez is marginally affected - but the route at the Murten exit via an unguarded level crossing of the Broyelinie , where five people lost their lives in 1969, as well as several busy roundabouts, is everything other than optimal. In order to avoid dangerous situations, at the beginning of the opening of the then T10 between Gampelen and Ins, before the construction of the Champ Raclé roundabout, a left turn was forbidden, so that the route from Ins to Galmiz over the Löwenberg roundabout and back was run on the normal road network. A reactivation of the original route (via the Kerzers motorway junction) would, however, require a bypass south of Ins and Müntschemier, which is currently not an issue due to the necessary land assignments.
On January 1, 2020, the federal government took over the then T10 from the canton of Bern and the J20 from the canton of Neuchâtel, which led to the fact that the vignette requirement was introduced on these sections - as on the other highways taken over by the federal government.
Connection A20 to A16
In 2000, the SVP - National Councilor Walter Schmied submitted a request whether the connecting piece of the A16 in Vallon de Saint-Imier with the motorway tunnel of the then J20 at the height of the Fenêtre des Convers with the A16 at the Sonceboz junction should not be converted into a second national road or third class. The decision was accepted by the Federal Council.
future
A bypass is planned from Le Crêt-du-Locle to La Chaux de Fonds and Le Locle.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Route principale suisse 20 (Route du Jura). In: fandom.com. Fandom Community, accessed May 7, 2020 (French).
- ↑ Freiburger Nachrichten of May 8, 2001 , archive; accessed on June 1, 2020
- ↑ Federal Roads Office FEDRO: New roads requiring a vignette. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Motorway connection J20 and A16. Classification as a national road. In: parlament.ch. The Swiss Parliament, 2000, accessed on May 7, 2020 .
- ^ Message on the amendment of the Federal Decree on the National Road Network and its financing. (PDF) In: news.admin.ch. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .