Rijksweg 11

Car route N11 in the Netherlands
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Basic data
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Overall length:	21 km
Provinces :	South Holland
Course of the road South Holland Province (6a)  Zoeterwoude- Rijndijk Start of the road Meerburgerwatering Zoeterwoude- Rijndijk Weipoortse Vliet (5)  Hazerswoude- Rijndijk (4)  Alphen aan den Rijn -West Begin Ring Alphen aan den Rijn (3)  Alphen aan den Rijn Center under the Gouda – Alphen aan den Rijn railway line Alphen-aquaduct (under Gouwe ) (2)  Alphen aan den Rijn -Oost End of ring Alphen aan den Rijn Bodegraven Center Verzorgingsplaats Bodegraven Knooppunt Bodegraven

The Dutch Rijksweg 11 is a 21 km long road. It starts in Zoeterwoude-Rijndijk near Leiden and leads past Alphen aan den Rijn to Knooppunt Bodegraven , where it turns into Rijksweg 12 . The N11 thus forms a direct connection from the A4 to the A12.

history

Construction of the N11 in 2003.

As early as 1980, it was decided to build a motorway (A11) between Leiden and Bodegraven . Due to environmental concerns and planning problems, however, this project was ultimately not implemented.

On January 27, 2000, the first part of the N11 between Zoeterwoude and Alphen aan den Rijn was opened to traffic under strange circumstances. Although the road was implemented as a four-lane road with two lanes in each direction, only one two-lane road was provided in the earlier usage plans. Due to this procedural error, the N11 was initially only released in two lanes, and one lane in each direction was initially closed until mid-2000.

The section between Alphen aan den Rijn and Bodegraven was opened on May 15, 2004 with four lanes as well, but not yet free of intersections. In 2010 the Rijkswaterstaat published the plans for a conversion of the N11 in order to obtain the status as a motor road. At the end of 2011 the crossing-free connection point Alphen aan den Rijn-Oost was completed. In 2013, work began on expanding the Alphen-aquaduct to accelerate the flow of traffic and building the Alphen aan den Rijn-Centrum junction . Official completion was on July 2nd, 2014.

Web links

Commons : Rijksweg 11  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Up-to-date traffic information - Rijkswaterstaat (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Construction phases of the N11, with completion date