A1 motorway (Namibia)

A1 motorway in Namibia
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Basic data
Operator:	Roads Authority
Start of the street:	near Okahandja ( 22 ° 3 ′  S , 16 ° 56 ′  E )
End of street:	Entrance / exit Nampower ( 22 ° 25 '  S , 17 ° 4'  O )
Overall length:	78 km
of which in operation:	65 km
of which under construction:	13 km
Regions :	Otjozondjupa Khomas
Development condition:	four-lane
Course of the road Otjozondjupa region Phase 4B: Completion planned by 2022 Okahandja Gross-Barmen M87 D1972 ( Rivier )  Swakop Osona Osona Base Start of the motorway, transition off Teufelsbach N. Teufelsbach S. Otjihavera Kalvariberg Okapuka D1499 (Rivier)  Dobra Khomas region Brakwater N D1474 Brakwater / Elisenheim D1473 Brakwater Windhoek-Monte Christo St Windhoek-Independence Ave Windhoek-Florence Nightingale St (Rivier)  Gammas Windhoek-Sam Nujoma Dr End of motorway, transition in Under construction In planning Notes: Naming and numbering of the connection points are not common in Namibia. For better orientation, geographical points are given in this list as names.  Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

The A1 is a 53 kilometer long motorway ( English freeway ) in Namibia . This runs in a north-south direction, starting with the transition from the national road B1 south of Osona near Okahandja and ends with the transition to the western bypass road (English Western Bypass ; B1) in the northwest of the capital Windhoek in the Hochland Park district . The Autobahn 1 is a section of the Trans-African Highway No. 3 , which leads from Tripoli via Windhoek to Cape Town, as well as a section of the Trans-Kalahari trunk road . The A1 is the first road in Namibia to be expanded according to the SADC freeway standard .

Routing

The A1 motorway begins southeast of Osona at the Osona Base with the transition from the B1 from the direction of Okahandja. It continues through Teufelsbach to Brakwater , Elisenheim and reaches the urban area of ​​Windhoek. The A1 runs northwest of Windhoek city center as part of the western bypass and ends with the transition to the B1 national road south to Rehoboth in the Hochland Park district, with a connection to the B6 national road east to Hosea Kutako International Airport and the border with Botswana .

history

The origin of the A1 motorway is based on the western bypass leading through Windhoek, which was built in the 1970s. The western bypass started in Brakwater, south of Windhoek, and ran as the two-lane B1 northwest of the University of Namibia (UNAM) to Auas ​​Road in the south of Windhoek.

The expansion plans for the expansion envisaged a total of 4 sections, with the aim of building a four-lane trunk road between Windhoek and Okahandja. The upgrading of the western bypass envisaged in phase 1, the renovation as a feeder in Windhoek from Sam-Nujoma-Drive to UNAM. Phase 2 included the further refurbishment of the western bypass from just before the Elisenheim Bridge near Brakwater to Windhoek's Sam Nujoma Drive. This work took place as a rehabilitation of National Road 1.

The construction work for phase 3 started in January 2014 and lasted until April 2017. In this construction phase, the existing B1 between the Döbra-Rivier and Brakwater was partially re-routed and expanded to form the motorway. The first signage on the stretch between Brakwater and Sam-Nujoma-Drive in Windhoek to the A1 motorway was already in place in January 2017. On April 19, 2017, the new route section was officially put into operation by the Roads Authority Namibia (RA) and officially rededicated as A1.

The expansion phase 4 was split into parts A and B. The expansion work from the B1 to the motorway from the Omakunde-Rivier south of Osona to the beginning of the A1 at the Döbra-Rivier near Okapuka should be completed by the beginning of 2019. The phase was completed in September 2019 and officially opened in January 2020. In addition, the entire released 65 kilometers are to be provided with a central guardrail.

Open to traffic

The following approvals were given in detail:

year	from	to	comment
1970s	Brakwater S	Windhoek S	Built as a western bypass of Windhoek (B1)
2017	AS Brakwater N	AS Brakwater S
2020	AS Okapuka	AS Osona

Planned expansion measures

The expansion of phase 4B includes a completely new routing. This section starts shortly before Okahandja at the intersection of the B1 to Otjiwarongo and the B2 to Swakopmund. The planned route runs as a bypass road past Okahandja, crosses the road to Groß-Barmen and runs in a north-westerly direction past Osona onto construction section 4A. This new route allows a single bridge structure after the confluence of the Okahandja-Rivier and Swakop-Rivier. It should be completed by 2022. Massive resettlements are necessary for the expansion.

In the southern urban area of ​​Windhoek, from the area of ​​the UNAM in a north-easterly direction to Robert Mugabe Ave, construction work is currently taking place for a 50 km long four-lane expressway to Hosea Kutako International Airport. With an extension of the carriageway between Sam-Nujoma-Drive and UNAM, the A1 could be extended.

See also

• Road system in Namibia
• Trans-African Highways
• Trans-Kalahari Corridor

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1] Namibia News Digest: Windhoek -Okahandja road becomes dual carriage way , December 13, 2013, accessed on August 19, 2019.
2. ↑ ^{a b} [2] Allgemeine Zeitung: Fernstraße officially renamed A1 , April 20, 2017, accessed on August 19, 2019.
3. ↑ [3] Allgemeine Zeitung: B1 becomes A1, green becomes blue: New standard for "Freeways" , January 6, 2017, accessed on August 19, 2019.
4. ↑ Completion of dual-carriageway expected in September. Lela, March 6, 2019.
5. ↑ Dual carriageway Section 4A completed. Namibia Press Agency , January 28, 2020.
6. ↑ Dual carriageway to be completed by 2022. New Era, March 7, 2019.
7. ↑ Okahandja squatters told to make way for highway. The Namibian, July 30, 2019.
8. ↑ [4] Lela Mobile: Concerns raised over dual carriageway construction November 5, 2017, accessed on August 19, 2019.