Innkreis Autobahn

A8 motorway in Austria
Innkreis Autobahn
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Basic data
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Overall length:	77.442 km
State :	Upper Austria
Innkreis Autobahn near Pichl-Bad Schallerbach before expansion in 2007. Between 2008 and 2017, the lanes and hard shoulders were widened.
Course of the road Province of Upper Austria (0)  Voralpenkreuz ,    (1)  Resting station Voralpenkreuz Half cover Taxlberg (400 m) Underfloor route Steinhaus / Taxlberg (2.330 m) Underfloor route Noitzmühle (1.610 m) Traun (in the tunnel) (11)  Catfish West Western Railway (12)  Wels business park catfish (14)  Knot catfish  catfish (17)  Rest area Oberham / South (18)  Rest area Oberham / North (19)  Pichl - Bad Schallerbach Innbach (31)  Meggenhofen (33)  Aistersheim rest stop Haag am Hausruck Pram Innviertelbahn (53)  Ried im Innkreis Ried im Innkreis Ried im Innkreis (56)  Rest area Murau / West (56)  Rest area Murau / East Antiesen (65)  Place in the Innkreis ,   Antiesen (3 ×) Salzkammergutbahn Hochstrasse Gstötten (780 m) (74)  Suben (74)  Suben rest stop Inn (674 m) Border crossing between Austria and Germany Continue on  Passau  Under construction In planning Section Control Traffic control system

The Innkreis Autobahn A 8 is a motorway in Upper Austria and part of the European roads 56 and 552 . It begins at the Voralpenkreuz junction as a continuation of the Pyhrn Autobahn (A 9) and runs over a length of approx. 77 kilometers via Wels ( A 25 ) through the Innkreis to the state border at Suben , where it connects to the German federal motorway 3 in the direction of Passau .

history

The stretch from Wels-West to Suben was completed in the 1980s. The last 11 kilometers from the Voralpenkreuz junction to Wels-West (the Welser Westspange ) were opened in 2003 after years of construction delays due to ecological concerns. The opening years in detail:

opening	Route section	length
08/27/1982	ASt Pichl - Wels node	4,338 km
06/30/1983	ASt Suben - State border Suben	2.232 km
11/21/1985	Ried im Innkreis node - Suben branch	20.533 km
11/21/1985	Ried im Innkreis node - ASt Walchshausen	1.410 km
06/30/1987	ASt Wels West - Node Wels	3.942 km
October 29, 1987	ASt Pichl-Bad Schallerbach - ASt Meggenhofen-Gallspach	10.961 km
11/21/1988	ASt Meggenhofen-Gallspach - ASt Haag	11.946 km
06/20/1990	ASt Haag - Ried im Innkreis node	10.902 km
08/24/2003	ASt Wels West - Pre-Alpine Cross node	11.178 km

Between 2008 and 2017, the lanes and hard shoulders were widened in those sections of the motorway that were originally made cheaper

The Wels motorway junction has a TOTSO traffic route. To continue in the direction of Voralpenkreuz coming from Passau, you have to leave the main lane, as the A 8 joins the A 25 here.

Motorway junction near Ried im Innkreis

The Ried im Innkreis junction is designed as a motorway junction. This is an advance payment for an unrealized planning of an expressway from Munich via Simbach and Braunau to Ried, which was to be run on the Austrian side as the Innviertel expressway  (S9). The route, known on the German side as Bundesautobahn 94 , is still only available as a fragment. In the meantime, Austria decided not to burden the region with transit traffic, which ultimately meant that the original plan was abandoned. The motorway would have significantly reduced the travel time between Vienna and Munich without going through Salzburg. More recent plans on the German side envisage connecting the A 94 to the federal motorway 3 shortly before the Austrian border near Pocking .

literature

• Bernd Kreuzer, Tempo 130. The cultural and planning history of the motorways in Upper Austria , Linz 2005.
• Bernd Kreuzer: The construction of the autobahns and expressways in Austria. - In: ASFINAG (Ed.): The motorway network in Austria. 30 years of Asfinag. - Vienna, 2012, p. 57

Web links

Commons : Innkreis Autobahn A8  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Innkreis Autobahn on motorways-exitlists.com (English)