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Bundesautobahn 9 (translates from German as Federal Motorway 9, short form Autobahn 9, abbreviated as BAB 9 or A 9) is an autobahn in Germany, connecting Berlin and Munich via Leipzig and Nuremberg. It is the fifth longest autobahn spanning 529 km (328.71 mi).
After the war, first the section between the cross Munich north and the cross Munich south (old designation: cross Brunnthal) was built in the 1970s. The A 8 Munich-Stuttgart was provisionally connected via the federal highway 471 to the A 9. Until then, the long-distance traffic had to drive through the urban area of Munich.
Berlin and Munich: ICE 9 (Berlin, Cologne and Bonn) ICE 10: Berlin, Hanover and Düsseldorf/Cologne: ICE 11: Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich: ICE 12: Berlin, Kassel and Basel: ICE 13: Berlin, Kassel and Frankfurt: ICE 14: Berlin, Essen and Aachen: ICE 15: Berlin, Halle and Frankfurt: ICE 16 (Berlin and Frankfurt) ICE 17 (Binz, Rostock and Berlin ...
A 24, connecting Berlin and Hamburg). The system is as follows: A 10 to A 19 are in eastern Germany (Berlin, Saxony-Anhalt, parts of Saxony and Brandenburg) A 20 to A 29 are in northern and northeastern Germany; A 30 to A 39 are in Lower Saxony (northwestern Germany) and Thuringia; A 40 to A 49 are in the Rhine-Ruhr to Frankfurt Rhine-Main
In 1998, a Berlin-Frankfurt service was introduced and a service between Cologne and Stuttgart ran between December 2005 and October 2006. Until December 2006, a morning Sprinter service ran between Frankfurt and Munich (with an intermediate stop at Mannheim), taking 3:25 hours for the journey. This has been since replaced by a normal ICE ...
The new line reduced travel time by train between Berlin and Munich from 6 hours to currently 3 hours and 45 minutes. [3] [4] Construction began in 1996 and cost about €10 billion ($11.8 billion), [5] making it the most expensive transport project in Germany since reunification. [6]
Map of motorways in Berlin. All of these autobahn terminate at the A10 Berliner Ring, a 196-kilometre-long (122 mi) autobahn that encircles the city at some distance from the centre, and largely in the surrounding state of Brandenburg. Central Berlin is connected to the A10 by several shorter autobahns:
Construction of the first high-speed rail in Germany began shortly after that of the French LGVs (lignes à grande vitesse, high-speed lines).However, legal battles caused significant delays, so that the German Intercity-Express (ICE) trains were deployed ten years after the TGV network was established.