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Three-lane autobahn An airport taxiway crossing the Bundesautobahn 14. Germany has approximately 650,000 km of roads, [4] of which 231,000 km are non-local roads. [5] The road network is extensively used with nearly 2 trillion km travelled by car in 2005, in comparison to just 70 billion km travelled by rail and 35 billion km travelled by plane.
One project was the private initiative HaFraBa which planned a "car-only road" crossing Germany from Hamburg in the north via central Frankfurt am Main to Basel in Switzerland. Parts of the HaFraBa were completed in the late 1930s and early 1940s, but construction eventually was halted by World War II .
The section between Neufahrn and the München-Nord interchange north of Munich was upgraded between 2004 and 2006 to four lanes each way. A survey of this section conducted in 2008 [update] recorded an average number of 143,000 vehicles per day and a maximum of 184,000.
On all German roads, there are speed limits for trucks, buses, cars towing trailers, and small motorised vehicles (mopeds, etc.). " Free travel for free citizens! (Freie fahrt für freie Bürger!) " is a very popular phrase in Germany, [ 17 ] coined by the ADAC in its resistance to a general speed limit on the Autobahn .
2.5.7 Traffic restrictions & allowances for vehicles (generally larger) than cars. ... signs on the A 3 in Frankfurt am ... minimum distance between vehicles. 274 ...
The total distance from Oberhausen to the Dutch border was completed in 1965. In June 1950, the construction work on the motorway south of Wiesbaden was resumed. The completion of the 3.5 km section to Weilbach was 1951, the following 17.4 km to Frankfurt-South were inaugurated on 10 July 1956.
Munich, Salzburg and Klagenfurt: ICE 77 (Münster and Berlin) ICE 78: Amsterdam, Cologne and Frankfurt: ICE 79: Brussels, Cologne and Frankfurt: ICE/TGV 82 (Paris, Mannheim and Frankfurt) ICE/TGV 83: Paris, Strasbourg and Stuttgart: ICE/TGV 84: Frankfurt, Strasbourg and Marseille: ECE 85: Frankfurt, Basel and Milan: ECE 88: Munich and Zurich ...
With few exceptions, Baden-Württemberg has a speed limit of 100 km/h for all road and motorway tunnels that have two tubes. It is the only German state where this is the case; other German states have had a speed limit of 80 km/h.