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Between 2008 and 2017, the lanes and hard shoulders were widened in those sections of the motorway that were originally made cheaper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