Autoroute A24

	Template: Infobox high-ranking street / Maintenance / FR-A
	Autoroute A24 in France
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Regions :	Nord-Pas-de-Calais; Picardy;
Status:	Planning discarded
	Under construction; In planning;

The Autoroute A 24 was a planned motorway in France , which was to lead from the Belgian border at Houplines via Armentières , Lille , Béthune and Lens to Amiens and there was to end at a motorway triangle with the A 16 .

Planning history

The planning of a motorway from Amiens to Lille began in the 1970s under the project name Autoroute A1 ^Bis . The motorway should lead via Lens to Tourcoing north of Lille and end there at the A 22 . To relieve the A 1 , a parallel route to the A 1 was planned between Amiens and the A 25 in the south of Lille. The section from the A 25 to the A 22 was planned as a western bypass of Lille. The entire route was 120 kilometers long. The realization was planned as a concession.

In 1996, the plans were changed so that the project was now referred to as Autoroute A 24 and shortened to include the western bypass of Lille. Now the motorway was to cross the A 25 near Armentières and merge into today's Belgian national road 58 north of the city on the Belgian border . The total length was reduced to 111 km. According to an estimate from 2007, the construction of the line including an approx. 20 km extension in Belgium should cost more than 1.3 billion euros . Because of these high construction costs, the project, which was controversial among the population, was decided by the French Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development from the plans for the next 20 to 30 years as a result of the Grenelle Environnement , an open debate between representatives of national and local administrations and organizations, deleted in August 2010. Now the plans for the expansion of the N 25 are to be resumed.

Web links

Autoroute A24 on WikiSara (French)

Individual evidence

↑ L'autoroute A24 n'est plus une priority. October 5, 2007, accessed June 16, 2014 (French).
^ Autoroute A24 et liaison Seine Nord - Les enjeux. June 1, 2003, accessed June 16, 2014 .
↑ L'A 24 définitivement enterrée ( Memento of August 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

[lavenir-1] L'autoroute A24 n'est plus une priority. October 5, 2007, accessed June 16, 2014 (French).

[2] Autoroute A24 et liaison Seine Nord - Les enjeux. June 1, 2003, accessed June 16, 2014 .

[3] L'A 24 définitivement enterrée ( Memento of August 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive )