Autoroute A400
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The Autoroute A 400 was a planned motorway in France to connect the cities of Annemasse and Thonon-les-Bains . The plans for this approximately 35 km long motorway went back to the 1980s. However, the project was abandoned in 1997.
Planning history
The first planning began in the 1980s. On April 1, 1992, the project, which was to be implemented in a concession, was added to the network of national roads. The public hearing was held in the summer of 1994, and ATMB was announced as the concessionaire for the project. On May 6, 1995, the realization of the A400 was declared an important project for the public. A construction phase of five years was expected, so that completion should take place at the beginning of the 2000s. Due to two lawsuits from a coalition of local and regional associations and residents as well as almost all cities along the route, delays occurred in the summer of 1995. In a judgment of March 28, 1997, the plaintiffs' arguments were followed and the project was removed from public plans. The combination of the high construction costs, which in 1995 were estimated at around 2.6 billion francs (equivalent to around 450 million euros in 2006), compared to the other motorway projects and a forecast, lower traffic volume of 10,000 vehicles per day resulted in a negative cost-benefit Analysis . In addition, a possible extension of the motorway to the Swiss border was abandoned in 1995 due to the estimated construction costs of between 2.8 and 3.5 billion francs.
Web links
- Autoroute A 400 on WikiSara (French)
