West bypass Mannheim
The west bypass is a road construction project in the north or north-west of Mannheim to relieve the federal highway 44 between the A6 motorway junction in Mannheim-Sandhofen and the Kurt-Schumacher-Brücke .
As the main access road with a direct connection to Ludwigshafen am Rhein , the existing road connection takes up a large part of the general traffic from the north and also serves to develop important industrial and commercial locations along the B 44, on the Friesenheimer Insel as well as the commercial and industrial port . For some residential areas in Sandhofen Neckarstadt-West and Jungbusch, the current road layout means considerable noise pollution due to through traffic.
The west bypass was designed as a solution to accommodate these traffic flows in the general traffic plan of 1970 and has been the subject of traffic discussions for almost 40 years. To date, however, only fragments of the traffic relief concept, such as the connection between B 44 and Diffenéstrasse over the Altrheinbrücke bridge in the 1960s and the expansion of the Mannheim-Sandhofen motorway junction in 2004, have been implemented.
During a feasibility study of the various route variants, variant 3.1 was recommended as the preferred variant for further pursuit. This runs from the Kurt-Schumacher-Brücke in an elevated position west of the Riedbahn , crosses the Neckar and continues on the Friesenheimer Insel east of the allotment gardens to Diffenéstraße.
As of February 2014, the planning has been discontinued as the co-financing from federal funds is not secured. A resumption is not expected before 2019. [outdated]
Web links
- Information template from the city of Mannheim dated October 20, 2005 (PDF file; 1.08 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerhard Bühler: The west bypass is still a long time coming . Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, February 8, 2014, accessed on October 1, 2018