Breitscheid motorway junction

Breitscheid Cross
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location
Country:	Germany
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Coordinates:	51 ° 20 '58 " N , 6 ° 51' 27" E Coordinates: 51 ° 20 '58 " N , 6 ° 51' 27" E
Height:	60 m above sea level NN
Basic data
Design type:	Windmühle (Kreuz Breitscheid) ; right-hand trumpet (Dreieck Breitscheid)
Bridges:	4 (motorway) / 3 (other)
Construction year:	circa 1965
Last modification:	2012
	A 3 (below), A 52 (above) and ; A 524 (not visible outside of the picture above left). ; View from the east in a westerly direction.

The Breitscheid motorway junction (abbreviation: AK Breitscheid ; short form: Breitscheid cross ) is a motorway junction in North Rhine-Westphalia , which is located in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region . Here the A 52 ( Mönchengladbach - Marl ) crosses the federal motorway 3 ( Oberhausen - Frankfurt am Main - Passau ), and the A 524 begins here by branching off from the A 52.

geography

The crossing point is in the area of the city of Ratingen , near the Breitscheid district . The surrounding cities are Essen , Duisburg and Mülheim an der Ruhr . The cross is located about 15 km southwest of Essen and about 15 km north of Düsseldorf .

The Breitscheid interchange is number 16 on Autobahn 3 and number 25 on A 52.

particularities

The cross is officially called "AK / AD-Breitscheid". It consists of the motorway junction of the A 3 with the A 52 and the motorway triangle of the A 52 and the A 524 .

Remodeling 2012

Since the beginning of 2012, the motorway junction has been subject to major reconstruction measures in order to better handle commuter traffic to Düsseldorf. The main component of the renovation work was the unbundling of the traffic flows from Oberhausen (A 3) to Düsseldorf (A 52) and Krefeld ( A 524 ) with those from Essen (A 52) and Cologne (A 3) in the direction of Düsseldorf (A 52) and Krefeld (A 524). For this purpose, the connecting ramps Oberhausen-Düsseldorf and Cologne / Essen-Krefeld were separated from one another with the help of a new arrangement. In addition, the expansion of these two connecting ramps to two lanes each has improved the efficiency of the motorway junction and relieved the traffic flow from Oberhausen (A 3) to Krefeld (A 524).

The renovation of the motorway junction was completed in August 2012. The costs amount to around 7 million euros .

Traffic volume

It is one of the busiest road junctions in North Rhine-Westphalia with around 223,000 vehicles per day in 2015.

From	To	Average daily traffic volume			Share of heavy goods traffic
From	To	2005	2010	2015	2005	2010	2015
AS Duisburg-Wedau (A 3)	AK Breitscheid	109,400	109,900	113,300	11.6%	11.1%	09.7%
AK Breitscheid	AK Ratingen-Ost (A 3)	107,400	103,300	101,100	10.7%	12.0%	10.9%
AS Tiefenbroich (A 52)	AD Breitscheid	101,500	101,500	104,200	05.2%	05.0%	05.6%
AD Breitscheid	AK Breitscheid	110,900	111,700	no data	05.4%	05.8%	no data
AK Breitscheid	AS Breitscheid (A 52)	095,400	095,900	102,200	05.2%	05.5%	04.9%
AS Lintorf (A 524)	AD Breitscheid	027,100	026,300	025,200	07.7%	07.0%	07.3%

Road crossings of the same principle

Web links

The overview of the renovation measures ( memento of May 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of Straßen.NRW

Individual evidence

↑ Four closures: Breitscheid motorway junction is being rebuilt
↑ Major motorway construction site - closures at the Breitscheid intersection
↑ Construction site at Kreuz Breitscheid: A conversion against the traffic jam ( Memento from January 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
↑ AK Breitscheid - conversion finished. Rheinische Post / Düsseldorf, August 15, 2012, accessed on November 4, 2012 .
↑ Manual road traffic census 2005. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2005, accessed on October 18, 2017 .
↑ Manual road traffic census 2010. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2010, accessed on October 18, 2017 .
↑ Manual road traffic census 2015. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on October 18, 2017 .

[1] Four closures: Breitscheid motorway junction is being rebuilt

[2] Major motorway construction site - closures at the Breitscheid intersection

[3] Construction site at Kreuz Breitscheid: A conversion against the traffic jam ( Memento from January 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

[4] AK Breitscheid - conversion finished. Rheinische Post / Düsseldorf, August 15, 2012, accessed on November 4, 2012 .

[5] Manual road traffic census 2005. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2005, accessed on October 18, 2017 .

[6] Manual road traffic census 2010. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2010, accessed on October 18, 2017 .

[7] Manual road traffic census 2015. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on October 18, 2017 .