Ratingen-Ost motorway junction

Ratingen-Ost motorway junction
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location
Country:	Germany
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Coordinates:	51 ° 17 '53 " N , 6 ° 53' 47" E Coordinates: 51 ° 17 '53 " N , 6 ° 53' 47" E
Height:	108 m above sea level NN
Basic data
Design type:	Right-hand trumpet , ; ( clover leaf with windmill ramp in planning)
Bridges:	2 (motorway) / 2 (other)
Construction year:	1992
Last modification:	2017

The Ratingen-Ost motorway junction (abbreviation: AK Ratingen-Ost ; short form: Ratingen-Ost junction ) is a motorway junction in North Rhine-Westphalia in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region . It connects the federal highway 44 ( Aachen - Kassel ) with the federal highway 3 ( Oberhausen - Frankfurt am Main - Passau ).

geography

The motorway junction is located in the city of Ratingen in the Mettmann district . The closest districts are Ratingen-Ost , Homberg and Eggerscheidt . It is located around 10 km northeast of downtown Düsseldorf , around 20 km southwest of Essen and around 20 km northwest of Wuppertal .

The Ratingen-Ost motorway junction has junction number 17 on the A3 and number 34 on the A44.

Closing the gap on the A 44 to Heiligenhaus

The plan is to extend the A 44 from the Ratingen-Ost junction to the Heiligenhaus - Hetterscheidt junction and to close the gap. The 9.8 km long new building is expected to cost around 222 million euros and will not be Template: future / in 2 yearsready until 2022 at the earliest . The groundbreaking ceremony was on April 26, 2010, but only part of the new building was started. Although there is no construction freeze, but currently suing Naturschutzbund Germany at the Federal Administrative Court against a unification of the country operation streets NRW with a farmer who saw threatened by the construction of the route its existence. Due to the changes made to the plans, the environmentalists no longer see species protection, especially for the little owl , being preserved.

In June 2018, the section of the A44 between the Heiligenhaus Hetterscheidt junction and the new Heiligenhaus junction near the city limits of Ratingen was opened.

The second section between the Heiligenhaus junction and the Ratingen-Ost motorway junction is under construction, and completion is Template: future / in 2 yearsexpected in 2022 . Construction costs of 109 million euros are estimated for this section. The section between the Ratingen Ost motorway junction and the Heiligenhaus junction still has to be bypassed via the B227 through Heiligenhaus-Unterilp, Ratingen-Hösel, Ratingen-Lintorf and Ratingen-Breitscheid as well as the A3.

Design and state of development

The A 44 has four lanes, the A 3 has six lanes. All connecting ramps are single-track.

The motorway junction was designed as a temporary right-hand trumpet , which will be converted into a cloverleaf with a windmill ramp if the building continues in the direction of Velbert . On the A44 and the cross together with the AS Ratingen-Ost a double junction .

Traffic volume

The cross is used by around 121,000 vehicles every day.

From	To	Average daily traffic volume			Share of heavy goods traffic
From	To	2005	2010	2015	2005	2010	2015
AK Breitscheid (A 3)	AK Ratingen-Ost	107,400	103,300	101,100	10.7%	12.0%	10.9%
AK Ratingen-Ost	AS Mettmann (A 3)	143,800	124,500	102,400	07.9%	10.1%	10.5%
AS Ratingen-Schwarzbach (A 44)	AK Ratingen-Ost	038,400	040,300	037,600	05.7%	04.6%	06.5%

Individual evidence

↑ A 44 Groundbreaking Heiligenhaus. eAutobahn, April 26, 2010, accessed November 11, 2012 .
↑ The expansion of the A44 is still a long time coming. The West, 2011, accessed November 11, 2012 .
↑ A44. Autobahn Atlas, accessed on August 10, 2018 .
↑ The A44 between Velbert and Heiligenhaus has been released. The West, April 13, 2018, accessed August 10, 2018 .
↑ Manual road traffic census 2005. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2005, accessed on July 6, 2020 .
↑ Manual road traffic census 2010. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2010, accessed on July 6, 2020 .
↑ Manual road traffic census 2015. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on August 27, 2017 .

[1] A 44 Groundbreaking Heiligenhaus. eAutobahn, April 26, 2010, accessed November 11, 2012 .

[2] The expansion of the A44 is still a long time coming. The West, 2011, accessed November 11, 2012 .

[3] A44. Autobahn Atlas, accessed on August 10, 2018 .

[eroeffnung-4] The A44 between Velbert and Heiligenhaus has been released. The West, April 13, 2018, accessed August 10, 2018 .

[5] Manual road traffic census 2005. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2005, accessed on July 6, 2020 .

[6] Manual road traffic census 2010. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2010, accessed on July 6, 2020 .

[7] Manual road traffic census 2015. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on August 27, 2017 .