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| A6 motorway in Austria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The north-east A6 motorway is a motorway in Austria and part of Europastraße 58 . It leads from the Bruckneudorf junction with the Ost Autobahn (A4) to the state border with Slovakia at Kittsee . Together with the A4 and the Slovakian motorways D4 and D2 , it represents a high-level connection from Vienna to Bratislava and replaced the former federal highways B9 and B50 as a high-level road connection in the past. Especially during the planning phase, it was also known as Spange Kittsee .
course
The motorway leads from the Ost Autobahn via the Bruckneudorf motorway triangle , which lies between the Bruck -Ost and Parndorf junctions , further in an easterly direction south of the village of Potzneusiedl , from there north of Gattendorf along the border between Burgenland and Lower Austria and south of Kittsee to there Kittsee / Jarovce motorway border crossing that has existed since 1999 . In Slovakia it will be continued as the D4 motorway, which after two kilometers joins the D2 (Bratislava- Hungary ) at the Jarovce motorway junction .
General
The motorway is 22 kilometers long, 16 kilometers of the route are in Burgenland and 6 kilometers in Lower Austria . The construction costs amounted to around 146 million euros.
Although the former border station in Kittsee has not been occupied since Slovakia joined the Schengen Agreement , it is preferred to check the Austrian and Slovak vignettes necessary for driving on the motorway .
history
Talked about since the Velvet Revolution of 1989, this motorway had been in planning since 1995 when it was first mentioned in a general study. The connecting motorway on the Slovak side (at Jarovce and Petržalka , Slovak name D4) was completed in the 1990s; On the Austrian side, a single-lane feeder was built that ended a little northeast of today's Kittsee junction on the B50. A preliminary project was started in 1997, completed in 1999 and submitted to the Austrian Ministry of Transport in 2000. This preliminary project was approved on November 2, 2000, and the entire project was submitted in March 2003. Until 2002, the route was referred to as Parndorfer Straße B307 in the Federal Roads Act .
After completing the environmental impact assessment in June 2004 and subsequent further official approval procedures, construction began on November 26, 2004 with a groundbreaking ceremony at the Kittsee border crossing. It was opened to traffic on November 20, 2007.
