Leverkusen motorway junction

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Leverkusen junction
A1 A3 E35 E37
map
Overview map of Leverkusen junction
location
Country: Germany
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 31 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 26 ″  E Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 31 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 26 ″  E
Height: 42  m above sea level NN
Basic data
Design type: Shamrock
Bridges: 1 (motorway) / 6 (other)

The Leverkusen junction is a motorway junction in North Rhine-Westphalia . Here, the cross Highway 3 ( Emmerich am Rhein - Frankfurt - Passau ) and A 1 ( Heiligenhafen - Dortmund - Saarbruecken ).

geography

The cross lies in the area of ​​the city of Leverkusen. It is located around ten kilometers north of Cologne and around 30 kilometers south of Düsseldorf . It is therefore in the middle of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region . It is the north-eastern boundary of the Cologne motorway ring . If you follow the A1 in the direction of Dortmund , you cross the Bergisches Land via the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis and Remscheid .

particularities

The motorway junction is in the immediate vicinity of the Leverkusen Chemical Park of Bayer AG and the Leverkusen Sports Park, with the BayArena , the home stadium of Bayer 04 Leverkusen , and the Ostermann-Arena .

Renovation and renovation

On February 18, 2013, the short-term renovation and reinforcement of the central structure of the A 3 via the A 1 became known, as the load was and still is around 60–70 percent above the acceptable permanent load. By strengthening the bridge, the stability was guaranteed for the coming years until the expansion of the A 3 as an eight-lane motorway (north to AS Leverkusen-Opladen), the preliminary planning of which is already in progress.

In connection with the urgently needed new construction of the Leverkusen Rhine Bridge , there are plans to completely redesign the A 1 motorway section from the Leverkusen Rhine Bridge to the Leverkusen junction, including the cross itself. In January 2020, 7 variants are being examined more closely, ranging from purely above-ground solutions to long or short tunnel solutions and combinations of both variants. The preliminary investigations for the expansion of the A 1 and A 3 in Leverkusen were completed in October 2018. The relevant documents are currently still being examined by the federal road construction department. A specific time window for the progress of the procedure or even the completion of corresponding measures has not yet been named.

Traffic volume

In 2010 the Leverkusen motorway junction was the busiest road junction in Germany after the Frankfurter Kreuz and the Köln-Ost junction, with around 235,000 vehicles per day. With an average of 160,000 vehicles per day, the section of the A 3 between the Leverkusen junction and the Heumar triangle is the most heavily frequented section of the motorway in Germany after the A 100 in the urban area of Berlin .

From To Average daily traffic volume
AS Burscheid (A1) AK Leverkusen 82,200 (2010 census) [not listed separately in the 2015 census. Between AS Wermelskirchen <> AS Burscheid: 80,400 (heavy load share: 10.2%)]
AK Leverkusen AK Leverkusen-West (A 1) 101,600 (2010 census) [not listed separately in the 2015 census. Between AK Leverkusen-West <> AS Niehl: 111,900 (heavy load share: 4.0)]
AS Opladen (A 3) AK Leverkusen 128,300 (heavy load share: 9.4%)
AK Leverkusen AS Leverkusen (A 3) 159,600 (heavy load share: 12.7%)

Due to the closure of the Rhine Bridge Leverkusen for vehicles over 3.5 tons, which has existed since 2014, the traffic situation at the Leverkusen junction has worsened again drastically, as truck traffic on the A1 has to be diverted via the East and South Ring Cologne. Until the new construction of the Leverkusen Rhine Bridge (opening of the first section is now planned for the end of 2021), the old bridge will no longer be expected to open to vehicles over 3.5 tons.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ AK Leverkusen. Motorway junctions and triangles in Germany, 2011, accessed on November 1, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Information from the State Office for Road Construction NRW on the expansion of the motorway near Leverkusen (A-bei-LEV for short): The expansion of the A3 and the Leverkusen motorway junction (accessed on January 31, 2020)
  3. ↑ Manual traffic census BAB 2015. (PDF) BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on June 25, 2017 . (PDF file)
  4. ↑ Note: The low proportion of heavy loads is almost certainly due to the closure of the Rhine Bridge Leverkusen for vehicles over 3.5 tons, which has existed since 2014 .
  5. ↑ Information from the State Office for Road Construction NRW on the Leverkusen Rhine Bridge (accessed: January 31, 2020)