Köln-Nord motorway junction

Cross Cologne-North
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location
Country:	Germany
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Coordinates:	50 ° 59 '49 "  N , 6 ° 53' 28"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 59 '49 "  N , 6 ° 53' 28"  E
Height:	48  m above sea level NN
Basic data
Design type:	Shamrock
Bridges:	1 (motorway) / 3 (other)
View from the north

The Köln-Nord junction is a motorway junction in North Rhine-Westphalia . Here crosses the highway 57 , the A 1 .

geography

The motorway junction is located 5 kilometers northwest of Cologne city center and approx. 30 km south of Düsseldorf . It is located in the area of ​​the city of Cologne , on the border of the boroughs Ehrenfeld , Nippes and Chorweiler . The cross is located in the middle of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region .

particularities

The motorway junction forms a double connection with the Longerich exit of the A57. South of the junction, this acts as a feeder road to Cologne city center. The cross is part of the Cologne motorway ring .

South of the junction (up to the Cologne-Bickendorf AS), the North Rhine-Westphalia Road Administration has set up one of the three routes on which the hard shoulder can be opened for driving if necessary. This increases the throughput capacity on this busy route.

Traffic volume

From	To	Average daily traffic volume			Share of heavy goods traffic
		2005	2010	2015	2005	2010	2015
AS Köln-Niehl (A 1)	AK Cologne-North	095,600	98,100	097,800	14.5%	14.1%	4.6%
AK Cologne-North	AS Köln- Bocklemünd (A 1)	088,100	90,300	103,400	15.5%	15.1%	11.0%
AS Chorweiler (A 57)	AK Cologne-North	115,000	99,900	100,600	no data	07.0%	09.7%
AK Cologne-North	AS Longerich (A 57)	093,200	85,700	067,200	04.8%	04.4%	03.9%

Current

As part of the extensive preparations for the new construction of the Rhine bridge Leverkusen from 2017 in and around the Cologne motorway ring , the new construction of the central structure at the Cologne-North motorway junction is also planned for 2016 and is expected to last until 2019. The new bridge structure will already be designed for the 6-lane operation of the A 57. As a result of this conversion, the A 57 is to be expanded to 6 lanes as far as the Cologne- Chorweiler motorway; this is independent of the plans to expand the A 57 and the Cologne-Chorweiler junction. In addition, the cross is to be rebuilt so that a half-ramp is to be built over the A 57 to unbundle the traffic flows for the journey from the A 1 from the direction of Euskirchen to the A 57 towards Neuss; For the journey from the A 1 from Dortmund to the A 57 in the direction of Cologne, a half-ramp is also to be built below the A 57. However, this conversion is only to be tackled when the first partial bridge construction of the new Leverkusen Rhine bridge is ready and can therefore resume truck traffic.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information from the Landesbetrieb Straßenbau NRW u. a. for Temporary shoulder release (TSF) (10 polling September 2016)
2. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2005. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2005, accessed on November 28, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2010. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2010, accessed on November 28, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2015. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on November 28, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Note: The slight decrease in pollution compared to the 2010 census and the comparatively low proportion of heavy loads are likely to be due to the closure of the Leverkusen Rhine Bridge for vehicles over 3.5 tons.
6. ↑ Information from the State Office for Road Construction North Rhine-Westphalia (accessed September 10, 2016)
7. ↑ See also the WP article Bundesautobahn 57
8. ↑ Information from the State Office for Road Construction North Rhine-Westphalia : A1 / A57: Conversion of the Cologne-North motorway junction (accessed June 11, 2017)
9. ↑ The Cologne-North motorway junction is to be converted to reduce traffic jams and noise - citizens are informed , Kölner Stadtanzeiger, June 16, 2017