Leverkusen-West motorway junction

Leverkusen-West junction
	L 293
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location
Country:	Germany
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Coordinates:	51 ° 2 '18 " N , 6 ° 57' 57" E Coordinates: 51 ° 2 '18 " N , 6 ° 57' 57" E
Height:	40 m above sea level NN
Basic data
Design type:	One-quadrant solution
Bridges:	7 (motorway)
	Aerial view, looking east

The Leverkusen-West junction is a motorway junction in North Rhine-Westphalia . Here, the cross Highway 59 ( Duisburg - Bonn ) and the A1 ( Heiligenhafen - Dortmund - Saarbruecken ).

geography

The cross lies in the area of the city of Leverkusen. It is located 10 km north of Cologne and about 30 km south of Düsseldorf . It is therefore in the middle of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region .

It is the northern limit of the Cologne motorway ring . If you follow the A1 in the direction of Dortmund , you will cross the Bergisches Land behind the Leverkusen junction .

Current condition (and close planning)

The A 1 running from south-west to north-east has 6 lanes. The northbound A 59 has 4 lanes.

The AK actually consists of two motorway triangles, a western part (connection with the L 293) and an eastern part (connection with the A 1), as the entire transition area looks like a motorway entrance.

In the course of the planned and urgently needed new construction of the Leverkusen Rhine bridge on the A1, a redesign of the A1 between the Rhine bridge and the Leverkusen motorway junction is also in the concrete planning, with the Leverkusen-West junction then also having to be redesigned.

Planned but not implemented extension of the A59

The original plan was to extend the A59 to the A 3 near Cologne-Mülheim and then run it parallel to the Heumar triangle . So the gap to the southern part of the A 59 to Bonn should be closed. However, these plans were rejected. Today the A 59 ends after the intersection and turns into the state road 293.

particularities

The motorway junction is in the immediate vicinity of the Bayer Chemical Park Leverkusen and the Leverkusen Sports Park, with the BayArena , the home stadium of Bayer 04 Leverkusen , and the Smidt Arena . The western part of the motorway junction is located directly on the Rhine , and motorway 1 also crosses the Rhine in the direction of Euskirchen after leaving the motorway junction.

Traffic volume

From	To	Average daily traffic volume			Share of heavy goods traffic
From	To	2005	2010	2015	2005	2010	2015
AK Leverkusen (A1)	AK Leverkusen-West	099,100	101,600	no data	13.5%	12.8%	no data
AK Leverkusen-West	AS Köln-Niehl (A 1)	116,500	119,400	111,900	11.0%	11.8%	4.0%
AS Leverkusen-Rheindorf (A 59)	AK Leverkusen-West	044,800	046,400	048,600	06.9%	06.5%	5.1%
AK Leverkusen-West	End of motorway (L 293)	023,000	022,700	024,400	02.6%	03.7%	4.9%

Individual evidence

^ The expansion of the motorway near Leverkusen. State Office for Road Construction NRW , accessed on June 21, 2017 .
↑ Manual road traffic census 2005. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2005, accessed on November 30, 2017 .
↑ Manual road traffic census 2010. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2010, accessed on November 30, 2017 .
↑ Manual road traffic census 2015. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on November 30, 2017 .

[1] The expansion of the motorway near Leverkusen. State Office for Road Construction NRW , accessed on June 21, 2017 .

[2] Manual road traffic census 2005. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2005, accessed on November 30, 2017 .

[3] Manual road traffic census 2010. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2010, accessed on November 30, 2017 .

[4] Manual road traffic census 2015. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on November 30, 2017 .