Federal highway 99
Bundesautobahn 99 in Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Operator: | Federal Republic of Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Start of the street: | Munich | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Overall length: | 57.7 km | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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The federal autobahn 99 (abbreviation: BAB 99 ) - short form: Autobahn 99 (abbreviation: A 99 ), also Autobahnring Munich - connects several freeways leading to Munich a few kilometers outside the city and enables long-distance traffic to bypass Munich.
The A 99 was already planned as a complete ring in the 1930s, but is not closed to this day. It runs from the A 96 in the southwest via the A 8 in the northwest and the A 92 in the north-northwest to the A 9 in the north (Munich-Nord motorway ring) and on to the A 94 in the east and the A 8 / A 995 in the south ( Munich-East motorway ring).
history
Due to the Second World War , construction was only started in places, the clearest evidence of the construction activities at that time is the Allach-Untermenzinger route , which can be clearly seen in aerial photographs, together with the remains of the route for the cross with the BAB 8; a bridge on the site that was never used was only demolished in the mid-1990s. There are also cleared forest sections north of the Hasenbergl .
After the war, the section between the München-Nord cross and the München-Süd cross (old name: Kreuz Brunnthal) was built in the mid-1970s. The A 8 Munich – Stuttgart was provisionally connected to the A 9 via the B 471 . Until then, long-distance traffic had to drive through the urban area of Munich.
The Munich- Fröttmaning- Nord junction was built later to accommodate the additional traffic from the Allianz Arena to and from Stuttgart. It is only designed as a half connection point . The Aschheim / Ismaning exit was also built retrospectively - a few years after the section between A 9 (Munich– Nuremberg ) and A 8 (Munich– Salzburg ) had been completed to relieve the community of Aschheim from through traffic. However, this was only partially successful.
On February 18, 2006, with a ceremony, a continuation from Munich- Lochhausen to the Germering -Nord junction was put into operation and opened for public transport from February 19, 2006, after another section up to the A 96 at the Munich-South motorway triangle West went into operation at the end of November 2005. The A 99 ends here today.
The A 99 was originally built with six lanes. It now has four lanes in each direction between exit 12a (Munich-Neuherberg) and Kreuz München-Nord; In addition, between Kreuz München-Nord and Kreuz München-Süd, four lanes per direction of travel, including the hard shoulder, whereby the hard shoulder is released when there is high traffic. The motorway is also to be expanded to eight lanes between the München-Nord junction and the Haar junction. The section is divided into three planning sections. For the first section between AK München-Nord and AS Aschheim / Ismaning, the planning approval decision was issued on January 14, 2013. The entire expansion should cost 147 million euros. The expansion was completed on November 22, 2019.
Traffic volume
In 2015 there were a total of fifteen automatic counting points along the A 99. In west-east direction or clockwise, the average daily traffic volume during this period was:
Counting point | Motor vehicle traffic / day | Heavy traffic / day |
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AS Germering-Nord (N) (9219) | 77,359 | 6,510 |
AK Munich-West (N) (9220) | 61,433 | 5,413 |
AD Munich – Eschenried (O) (9774) | - | - |
AD Munich – Allach (O) (9775) | 119,880 | 16,992 |
Feldmoching (9155) | 118.120 | 14,216 |
AD Munich-Feldmoching (W) (9216) | - | - |
AD Munich – Feldmoching (O) (9207) | 80,550 | 11,968 |
AK Munich-North (W) (9215) | 82.205 | 9,673 |
Aschheim – West (9218) | 122,586 | 18,370 |
Aschheim / Ismaning (S) (9211) | 127,312 | 18,310 |
AK Munich-East (N) (9212) | 118,793 | 17,345 |
AK Munich-East (S) (9213) | 112,290 | 13,214 |
Neu-Keferloh (9244) | 95,558 | 12,679 |
Hohenbrunn (9228) | 96,420 | 13,929 |
Ottobrunn (9229) | 87,152 | 15,540 |
With up to 120,000 vehicles per day (as of 2010), the A 99 is the busiest motorway in Bavaria. In 2015 there are already 160,000 vehicles per day and a further strong increase in traffic is expected. Traffic jams are particularly frequent in front of the Munich North, Munich South, Feldmoching, Eschenrieder Spange, Aubinger Tunnel and Allacher Tunnel motorway junctions (usually twice a day).
Construction progress / planning status
A ring closure in the south from the A 96 to the A 95 and on to the Munich-Süd junction (or to the A 995 near Unterhaching ) was included by the federal government in the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan in 2003 as a project in further need with a high ecological risk. In October 2004 it was decided to delete the project from the federal transport infrastructure plan. In May 2006, however, a feasibility study was commissioned. Their estimated costs of around half a million euros were shared by the federal government and the Free State of Bavaria.
On November 26, 2008, the Southern Bavaria Motorway Directorate presented interim results of the study. A second interim report followed on April 29, 2009. Of the 95 route variants originally considered, only eleven remain. The lengths of the routes vary between 13 and 35 kilometers. The southernmost route variant runs south of Gauting, Baierbrunn and Oberhaching. Since large parts of it would have to be built underground, the construction costs would add up to 45 million euros per kilometer. Conventionally built kilometers of motorway cost around eight million euros.
In the last step of the feasibility study, it should be examined what effects the proposed routes would have on the environment, spatial structure, traffic and construction costs. On May 17, 2010, the Southern Bavaria Motorway Directorate presented the final report of the study. The presentation of the report comes to the conclusion that "when taking into account the measures to avoid and reduce interventions ... closing the gap in the motorway ring is basically sensible and feasible". In the final report, a planning recommendation is made for two of the originally examined routes. Both routes connect the Munich-South-West motorway triangle with different sections of the A 995 at Unterhaching and Taufkirchen. Both routes provide for tunneling under the village of Krailling with the Würmtal. Depending on the route, a tunnel under the Isar Valley together with Grünwald and Pullach or a tunnel a little further north is planned. The cost of both routes is estimated at 1.2 billion euros.
The continuation of the A 99 is politically controversial. On June 15, 2010, the then Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer stopped the project.
The A99 between the Munich-North motorway junction and Aschheim / Ismaning was expanded from 2017 to 2019. Preparations for the provisional traffic management had already begun in 2016. The release took place on November 22, 2019; the total cost of the expansion is given as 170 million euros. In the course of 2020, the possibility of activating the hard shoulder should also be created.
particularities
Eschenried clasp
A structural feature is the Eschenrieder Spange - often also referred to as "A 99a" - a four kilometer long branch of the A 99 that leads to the A 8 towards Stuttgart.
Aubinger tunnel
The Aubing Tunnel is the longest with its 1956 meters of Bavaria highway tunnel. It was recognized by the ADAC as one of the safest tunnels. In 2008 the tunnel received one of the most modern speed control systems in Europe at the time. The measurements are taken in both directions of travel without the driver noticing anything. 500 meters after the entrance, measuring points have been set up in both directions, which forward the measured data directly to the police. In the first week after its launch, more than 1,500 speeding violations were recorded, according to press releases.
Truck checkpoint
Between the Hohenbrunn and Haar junctions, in the direction of Nuremberg / Stuttgart, there is a truck control point for the police and the Federal Office for Goods Transport . Before the control point, the axle loads of the trucks are measured by sensors in the lane of the motorway in order to check the gross vehicle weight. Suspicious trucks are then waved out at the checkpoint; There is a calibrated scale with which the exact weight can be determined.
Trivia
As of January 1, 2016, the responsibilities for the A 99 were as follows:
- in the area of the Munich-South-West motorway triangle with the A 96 (4/35) and the Munich-North motorway junction with the A 9 (13/72) at the Munich-North / West motorway maintenance authority,
- in the area of the Munich-North motorway junction with the A 9 and the A 995 (13/72) and the Munich-South motorway junction (21/95) at the Hohenbrunn motorway maintenance office.
Web links
literature
- Nikolaus Dezasse: A99 - the ring binder . ADAC Südbayern, Munich 2008.
- Roland Gabriel, Wolfgang Wirth: Right through the middle or around the outside? The long planning history of the Munich motorway ring. Verlag Franz Schiermeier, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-943866-16-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Motorway Directorate South Bavaria: 8-lane expansion of the A 99 between the Munich-North motorway junction and the Haar junction. (PDF) In: www.abdsb.bayern.de. January 2010, accessed April 18, 2014 .
- ^ Government of Upper Bavaria gives the green light for the 8-lane expansion of the A 99 East federal motorway. Motorway ring Munich between AK München-Nord to AS Aschheim-Ismaning, press release no. 032. (No longer available online.) In: www.regierung.oberbayern.bayern.de. Government of Upper Bavaria, January 29, 2013, archived from the original on January 13, 2014 ; Retrieved April 18, 2014 .
- ^ Government of Upper Bavaria: Planning approval decision A99 East, 8-lane expansion AK Munich-North - AS Haar. (PDF) Construction phase 1 AK München-Nord to AS Aschheim-Ismaning. In: www.regierung.oberbayern.bayern.de. January 14, 2013, accessed April 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Anna Günther, Marco Völklein: A 99 is to be expanded to eight lanes. In: www.sueddeutsche.de . November 9, 2011, accessed April 18, 2014 .
- ^ After traffic jams on the A99 near Munich: Free travel again. November 22, 2019, accessed November 22, 2019 .
- ↑ bast - Federal Highway Research Institute: Automatic counting stations 2015 - A 99 . Online at www.bast.de, accessed on October 22, 2016.
- ↑ Manual road traffic census 2010. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: www.bast.de. Federal Highway Research Institute, November 11, 2011, archived from the original on April 19, 2014 ; Retrieved April 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Expansion of the A 99 can begin. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 20, 2015, accessed October 5, 2015 .
- ↑ Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing: Bundesverkehrswegeplan 2003 (PDF) July 2, 2003, p. 51 , accessed on April 15, 2014 .
- ↑ Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing: Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2003 (Bavarian List). (PDF) July 2, 2003, p. 95 , accessed April 15, 2014 .
- ↑ Committee on Transport, Building and Housing (14th Committee): Draft of a Fifth Act to Change the Highway Expansion Act. (PDF) Printed matter 15/3412. German Bundestag, June 18, 2004, p. 80 , accessed April 15, 2014 .
- ↑ New attempt for Munich motorway ring . In: Münchner Merkur . No. 100 , May 2, 2006 ( bi-muenchen.de [accessed April 15, 2014]).
- ↑ 1st interim report on the Südring feasibility study (November 26, 2008) (PDF; 4.7 MB)
- ↑ 2nd interim report on the Südring feasibility study (April 29, 2009) (PDF; 4.7 MB)
- ↑ Final report on the Südring feasibility study (May 27, 2010) (PDF; 8.0 MB)
- ^ Autobahn-Südring: The project is buried - the problems remain , SZ from March 14, 2011
- ↑ 8-lane expansion of the A 99 between AK München-Nord and AS Aschheim / Ismaning. In: www.abdsb.bayern.de. Retrieved December 26, 2016 .
- ↑ Eight-lane expansion of the A99: Munich east bypass free. Bayerischer Rundfunk , November 22, 2019, accessed on February 20, 2020 .
- ↑ http://www.abdsb.bayern.de/wir_ueber_uns/am_hohen_b.php
- ↑ Supreme building authority in the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, for construction and traffic: Free State of Bavaria - Road overview map - Responsibilities of the motorway maintenance authorities . PDF. January 1, 2016, online at www.baysis.bayern.de, accessed on September 17, 2016.